§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what new initiatives he intends to introduce to protect dolphins.
§ Mr. CurryIn addition to strongly supporting the recent agreement under the Bonn convention for the conservation of small cetaceans in the North and Baltic seas, the introduction this year of a scheme for voluntary reporting of all incidental captures of marine mammals including cetaceans, the EC-wide limitation on drift net length from 1 June which we secured last year, continuing research on strandings and other aspects of small cetaceans, we are planning further research relevant to incidental capture.