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BASS - RSA "Strategy"

 

Draft RSA Strategy

 

Paul Beresford (Mole Valley, Conservative) | Hansard source

 

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he plans to implement the recommendations in the Net Benefits report on the development of the UK's Recreational Sea Angling sector, in particular the recommendation that bass be considered as a recreational species.

 

Jonathan R Shaw (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Marine, Landscape and Rural Affairs) and Minister for the South East), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | Hansard source

 

Our plans to take forward the recommendations in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit report "Net Benefits" concerned with inshore fisheries in England including Recreational Sea Angling, were addressed in Defra's "Charting a New Course". These publications are available in the Library of the House.

 

These plans included a commitment to consult on measures to increase the number and size of sea bass available to benefit both recreational anglers and commercial fishermen. My decision not to increase the minimum landing size of bass was announced on 25 October. This announcement included a number of other measures to benefit bass stocks and recreational sea angling in general.

 

 

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