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Mr. Gill
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for what reasons fishermen are required to land their catches at designated ports. [31020]
Mr. Morley
A system of designated landing and transhipment ports already operates for pelagic fisheries in order to assist control and enforcement activity. We expect to announce shortly proposals to extend the arrangements for designated ports to landings of non pelagic species.