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Mr. Morley
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he is taking to ban twin-prawn rigs.
Mr. Curry
Fisheries departments are at present consulting the United Kingdom fishing industry about a range of proposals to conserve nephrops stocks, including the possibility of banning twin or multi-rig trawls in this fishery.Copies of the consultation document were placed in the Library on 6 December 1991.