§ Dr. MarekTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to safeguard Illex squid stocks in the South Atlantic.
§ Mr. Garel-JonesYes. We and the Falkland Islands Government are conscious of the need to conserve these stocks. As part of our efforts to do so we agreed recently with the Argentine Government measures to enhance fisheries conservation in the south-west Atlantic, including the establishment of a Falkland Islands outer conservation zone in which all fishing has been banned for one year beginning on 26 December 1990. An Anglo-Argentine joint commission on fisheries, at which information about and ideas on conservation will be discussed, will meet in March.