VoteClimate: Inshore Industry Fishing Crews: Visas - 25th May 2023

Inshore Industry Fishing Crews: Visas - 25th May 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Inshore Industry Fishing Crews: Visas.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-05-25/debates/7AC5552C-D0A8-4EF5-8D43-D223529110DC/InshoreIndustryFishingCrewsVisas

14:16 David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con)

We are talking about a different kind of small boat, although sometimes they are not all that small. These fishing boats operate out of some of the most remote, sparsely populated areas, where unemployment rates are often so low as to be effectively zero. As the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland said, in a lot of these areas—particularly in Orkney and Shetland, and in Banff and Buchan, which I represent—there is huge competition from other industries. Traditionally, the competition comes from the oil and gas industry, but given the energy transition, the renewable energy sector is rapidly becoming a competitor, too.

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