Fisheries

Part of Points of Order – in the House of Commons at 2:12 pm on 25 January 2001.

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Photo of Malcolm Moss Malcolm Moss Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire 2:12, 25 January 2001

That is not the policy. If the Minister meant what he said in 1996, national control must mean control principally by the nation state; there is thus, in effect, a veto on what happens within its fishery limits—however defined. In answer to some of the Minister's questions, we are not saying that, under a policy of national control, countries with historic fishing rights in those waters will not continue to have those rights. We are saying that they will fish under licences and regulations determined by the national Government. That is national control—it is not zonal management.