HC Deb 19 January 1999 vol 323 c454W
Mr. Gill

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the prospects for decentralising the control of fisheries to zonal management committees within EU member states. [66408]

Mr. Morley

Zonal management committees are one of the ideas being examined by the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations and the Scottish Fishermen's Federation. The Federations have been assessing their ideas with their counterparts in other Member States and I shall be interested to see the outcome of these contacts.