Safety of Life at Sea Convention (Fishing Vessels)

HC Deb 08 February 1968 vol 758 cc220-1W

80. Mr. Webster

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will seek to convene an international conference to extend the convention on Safety of Life at Sea to cover fishing vessels and to bring it up to date.

Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu

We are of course always in close touch with the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation and the Government will pursue with that Organisation the question whether present international studies on fishing vessels are sufficiently far advanced to justify a conference to extend the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea to cover fishing vessels.