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I say to him that, given his on-going interest in fishing and the policy position that he has taken, with which we agree but his party leader does not, there is a membership card awaiting him at any time.
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Date answered:
16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scotland-registered skippers have been prosecuted for illegally landing fish in each year from 2002. The term, illegally landing fish is a fairly general term which we have interpreted as either the landing of fish which has not been properly declared, or catches which are of themselves illegal in that the fishing vessel concerned was not authorised to catch a particular species, or the fish were juveniles which ought to have been returned to the sea.
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Date answered:
16 March 2011
Environmental concerns identified include: benthic ecology, marine mammals, fish and shellfish, seabirds, water and sediment quality, terrestrial and intertidal ecology, landscape, seascape and noise.
I have no problem with the policy intent behind the Sea Fishing (EU Recording and Reporting Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011, but I note that, under “Policy Objectives”, paragraph 3 of the Executive note refers to“an annual financial turnover in first sales of fisheries products of €200,000 or more”.I take that to be the de minimis rule, but th...