Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 April 2017.
Baroness Byford
Conservative
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 9 March (HL5592 and HL5593), and in the light of the invoking of Article 50 on 29 March, whether they intend to withdraw from the 1964 London Fisheries Convention, so that the rights of other states covered by that convention to fish in the 6–12 nautical mile zone are brought into line with the rights of non-convention EU member states following Brexit.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We are looking very carefully at the London Fisheries Convention and at what action needs to be taken. As the Prime Minister told the House of Commons on 29 March, we hope to be able to say something about this soon.
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No0 people think not
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