1House of Commons Hansard. (2020, February 11). Fisheries Bill [HL]. Retrieved from <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2020-02-11/debates/F1D340E5-8EB8-4B77-ABD3-0A83120A349C/FisheriesBill(HL)" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2020-02-11/debates/F1D340E5-8EB8-4B77-ABD3-0A83120A349C/FisheriesBill(HL)</a> [accessed 17 February 2020]
Baroness Young (Lab) noted:
In the Bill we simply have an aspirational objective to achieve a healthy biomass of stocks, a rather woolly objective that is neither legally enforceable nor subject to any deadline, to be taken forward by way of a policy statement that the Bill says can be disregarded in a wide variety of circumstances.