Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the UK’s priorities are for this year’s meeting of the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

The UK will reinforce our strong commitment to the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) as an important constituent of the Antarctic Treaty System; uphold the key objective of CCAMLR to conserve Antarctic marine living resources; and protect UK sovereign interests in the South Atlantic and Antarctica. The UK will also continue its efforts to progress discussions on enhancing conservation in the Southern Ocean, including progressing discussions on establishing a representative network of Marine Protected Areas. The UK is also working to progress the development of a krill risk assessment framework for the management of the krill fishery around the Antarctic Peninsula.