Examination of Witness (Questions 760-763)
Mr Sujiro Seam
8 MAY 2008
Q760 Viscount Brookeborough: And
you are subsidising an increase in efficiency which is an increase
in fishing effort by those that will remain.
Mr Seam: I am not sure because we do not encourage
them to adopt more efficient fishing techniques.
Q761 Viscount Brookeborough: But
I thought you said earlier that you did, that you were running
a plan for making the engines more efficient and for investigating
more efficient net techniques.
Mr Seam: I specified more efficient in terms
of fuel consumption, not in terms of capacity to catch fish. We
are not encouraging more powerful engines, for example, but maybe
the same engine or an engine with the same power with a lower
consumption of fuel.
Q762 Viscount Brookeborough: Biofuels.
Mr Seam: Maybe, even though we have some doubts
on this issue and even though it does not touch on fishery specific
concerns.
Q763 Lord Cameron of Dillington:
So do we.
Mr Seam: It is out of my portfolio.
Chairman: Thank you very much. That was a superb
performance.
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