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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

My Lords, on the Minister’s earlier point, do I understand that certainly by-laws will be the method used and that the only thing we will be able to govern is whether the gear is appropriate? So certain areas will have to be zoned and the gear appropriate to those zones will have to be covered. If someone is found holding the wrong gear, that will be cause for instituting a charge against them. It is in the nature of trawling in the sea that by the time the damage is found the people who carried it out will be miles away and no one will have any idea who it was.