§ Mr. MorleyTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what advice he is giving to producer organisations on the management of their quota pending the introduction of days at sea restrictions.
§ Mr. CurryThe management of quotas allocated to producer organisations (POs) is, in general, a matter for them, operating within a framework of rules which136W Fisheries Departments lay down in the interests of the United Kingdom fleet as a whole. Days at sea will not have retrospective effect from the date of their introduction. Management of days at sea will be entirely up to the individual fishermen, since the allocations are to individual vessels not to POs.
§ Mr. MorleyTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will announce details of individual days at sea allocation transfer and any possible licence aggregation.
§ Mr. CurryThe Government will shortly be laying before Parliament an Order which will set out principles governing the allocation of days at sea. This order will clear the way for the issue of provisional allocations to fishermen, and subsequently for the attachment of days at sea conditions to licences. Such conditions will not be retrospective.