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Conservatives support marine wildlife campaigners
Shadow Environment Secretary Tim Yeo has expressed support for the Wildlife and Countryside Link, and pledged new legislation to promote better marine conservation measures.After lobbyists seeking more protection of Britain's marine wildlife visited Parliament, he declared: "I have been in close dialogue with Wildlife and Countryside Link for many months and was delighted to meet them again."And he stressed: "I made clear that the Conservative Party is fully committed to introducing a Marine Conservation Bill early in the next Parliament. Tony Blair's Government promised to introduce such a Bill but failed to do so.
They are all talk."Mr Yeo said that under the Conservative Party's timetable for action, a programme would be introduced to ensure that marine conservation, and management of all those who use the sea, is properly integrated, while fishing and other resource exploitation would be amalgamated with marine conservation policy within more wide-ranging and integrated framework legislation.
Mr Yeo explained that a Conservative administration would set up new local Fisheries Management Authorities, who will be duty bound to protect dolphins and other cetaceans by ensuring that modern selective gear is used for commercial species and by banning destructive fishing techniques which give rise to unacceptable by-catch rates for cetaceans and avoidable deaths of seabirds. The shake up would mean the automatic banning of pair trawling out to 200 miles or the median line, to prevent the unacceptable levels of deaths of dolphins and porpoises from by-catch, and permanent and temporary closed conservation zones, which would benefit
endangered marine species.The Conservatives' Marine Conservation Bill would streamline and update the complex tangle of regulations currently governing the marine environment; provide a proper marine spatial planning framework that defines zones to be prioritised for marine renewable energy installations, for fisheries and for nature conservation; give stronger protection to marine species; and make powers available to ensure that the law is rigorously enforced.
Shadow Environment Secretary Tim Yeo has expressed support for the Wildlife and Countryside Link, and pledged new legislation to promote better marine conservation measures.After lobbyists seeking more protection of Britain's marine wildlife visited Parliament, he declared: "I have been in close dialogue with Wildlife and Countryside Link for many months and was delighted to meet them again."And he stressed: "I made clear that the Conservative Party is fully committed to introducing a Marine Conservation Bill early in the next Parliament. Tony Blair's Government promised to introduce such a Bill but failed to do so.
They are all talk."Mr Yeo said that under the Conservative Party's timetable for action, a programme would be introduced to ensure that marine conservation, and management of all those who use the sea, is properly integrated, while fishing and other resource exploitation would be amalgamated with marine conservation policy within more wide-ranging and integrated framework legislation.
Mr Yeo explained that a Conservative administration would set up new local Fisheries Management Authorities, who will be duty bound to protect dolphins and other cetaceans by ensuring that modern selective gear is used for commercial species and by banning destructive fishing techniques which give rise to unacceptable by-catch rates for cetaceans and avoidable deaths of seabirds. The shake up would mean the automatic banning of pair trawling out to 200 miles or the median line, to prevent the unacceptable levels of deaths of dolphins and porpoises from by-catch, and permanent and temporary closed conservation zones, which would benefit
endangered marine species.The Conservatives' Marine Conservation Bill would streamline and update the complex tangle of regulations currently governing the marine environment; provide a proper marine spatial planning framework that defines zones to be prioritised for marine renewable energy installations, for fisheries and for nature conservation; give stronger protection to marine species; and make powers available to ensure that the law is rigorously enforced.
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