Proposed Fisheries Management Plan for Crab and Lobster in the Welsh zone
1. Please tick box with preferred response and add any additional comments you would like to make.
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1. Do you agree with the rationale and introduction of Policy 1: Improve our understanding of the status of crab and lobster stocks? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
2. Do you agree with the rationale and introduction of Policy 2: Catches of crab and lobster are within sustainable limits based on scientific evidence? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
3. Do you agree with the rationale and introduction of Policy 3: Reduce any adverse impacts on the marine environment? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
4. Do you agree with the rationale and introduction of Policy 4: Crab and lobster fisheries are resilient to the impacts of climate change? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
5. Do you agree with the rationale and introduction of Policy 5: Improve our understanding of other crustacea species of economic and social importance? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
6. Having read the policies in the FMP do you agree that the publication of the FMP does not in itself have any significant effect on European marine sites? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
7. Having read the draft voluntary Strategic Environmental Assessment: Environmental Report, do you agree with the approach being taken by the Welsh Government? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
8. Having read the Integrated Impact Assessment summary, do agree with this assessment? Please explain and provide evidence to support your reasoning where possible.
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What, in your opinion, would be the likely effects of the Crab and Lobster FMP on the Welsh language? We are particularly interested in any likely effects on opportunities to use the Welsh language and on not treating the Welsh language less favourably than English.
Do you think that there are opportunities to promote any positive effects?
Do you think that there are opportunities to mitigate any adverse effects?
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In your opinion, could the Crab and Lobster FMP be formulated or changed so as to:
- have positive effects or more positive effects on using the Welsh language and on not treating the Welsh language less favourably than English; or
- mitigate any negative effects on using the Welsh language and on not treating the Welsh language less favourably than English?
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