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"The Royal Navy does not have enough ships to police the UK's fisheries after Brexit, its former head has said.
The comments by Lord West of Spithead, the former First Sea Lord, came in a house of Lords debate about a European Union Committee Report into implementation and enforcement of EU Landing Obligations, an EU policy which seeks to curb the controversial discarding of fish.
Lord Teverson said he supported "the Government entirely in what I hope is their intention to keep this policy, but we have to make sure that we have a way to implement it".
However, Lord West said: "We have insufficient ships within our fishery protection squadron to carry out enforcement at the level he is talking about"
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The comments by Lord West of Spithead, the former First Sea Lord, came in a house of Lords debate about a European Union Committee Report into implementation and enforcement of EU Landing Obligations, an EU policy which seeks to curb the controversial discarding of fish.
Lord Teverson said he supported "the Government entirely in what I hope is their intention to keep this policy, but we have to make sure that we have a way to implement it".
However, Lord West said: "We have insufficient ships within our fishery protection squadron to carry out enforcement at the level he is talking about"
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Navy 'too short of ships to police fisheries after Brexit'
Lords want UK Government to keep EU fisheries policy but say Royal Navy has insufficient ships to enforce it