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The Cabinet Secretary helped secure the deal as part of the UK Ministerial negotiating team at the EU Fisheries Council in Brussels which concluded early this morning.

The deal that was reached with regards to Wales’ priorities were:

1. Commercial Sea Bass Fishery \- The retention of the use of selective netting within the seabass fishery.  This was a significant challenge as stock remains in a recovering state.  However, working within the overall sustainable envelope, a modest increase in netting was secured.  Initial proposals would have seen no provision at all for netting in 2017\.
2. Recreational Sea Bass fishery – The Cabinet Secretary made a case to increase the amount available to recreational angling.  However, the Commission and Presidency could only justify a roll\-over of arrangements from 2016 – namely catch and release for the first 6 months of the year followed by a one fish per day bag limit for the remainder of the year.
3. Commercially Important Species \- in line with science, the Cabinet Secretary negotiated for a roll over in the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) on commercially important skates and rays and sole in the Bristol Channel.  The proposal was for a cut in both of these species.  In the end, the Commission and Presidency settled on a 5% increase in Skate and Ray and an 8% increase in sole.

The Cabinet Secretary said:


> “I am grateful to fisheries and recreational angling representatives with whom I met recently to help identify the key stocks of interest to Wales.  As the industry has already undertaken voluntary sustainability measures and produced clear socio\-economic evidence, I was able to make a strong case when I met with the Presidency and Commission alongside Ministerial colleagues, George Eustice, the Defra Minister of State, Fergus Ewing MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity, Scottish Government, and Michelle McIlveen MLA, Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland Government.
> 
> “In line with our commitments on sustainable natural resource management, my priority was to safeguard fish stocks whilst also securing a positive outcome for those coastal communities whose economies depend so much on the sea.  There is a need to fish at sustainable levels based on the best available scientific advice.  
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> “Finding the right balance in the negotiations was a challenge. Overall, I believe a strong and fair balance was struck between protecting the economic interests of small\-scale fishers and recreational anglers with the need to move stocks toward the position where they can be fished sustainably into the future."







Translation:


 
Cyfrannodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet at sicrhau’r fargen fel aelod o dîm trafod Gweinidogion y DU yng Nghyngor Pysgodfeydd yr UE ym Mrwsel a ddaeth i ben yn gynnar bore yma. 

Y cytundeb o ran blaenoriaethau Cymru yw: 

1. Y Bysgodfa Draenogiaid Môr Fasnachol – Cadw’r hawl i ddefnyddio rhwydi dethol o fewn y bysgodfa draenogiaid môr.  Roedd hyn yn dipyn o her gan mai statws stoc sy’n ymadfer sydd iddi o hyd.  Fodd bynnag, trwy weithio o fewn yr amlen gynaliadwy gyffredinol, sicrhawyd cynnydd bychan yn y cwota rhwydo.  Yn y cynnig gwreiddiol, nid oedd darpariaeth o gwbl ar gyfer rhwydo yn 2017\.
2. Y Bysgodfa Draenogiaid Môr Hamdden – Dadleuodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet o blaid cynyddu’r cwota i bysgotwyr hamdden.  Fodd bynnag, ni allai’r Comisiwn na’r Llywyddiaeth gyfiawnhau mwy na pharhau â threfniadau 2016 – sef dal a gollwng yn 6 mis cynta’r flwyddyn ac yna derfyn o un pysgod y dydd ar gyfer gweddill y flwyddyn.
3. Rhywogaethau Masnachol Bwysig – yn unol â’r wyddoniaeth, dadleuodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet o blaid cadw Cyfanswm y Ddalfa a Ganiateir (TAC) ar forgathod a lledod chwithig masnachol bwysig ym Môr Hafren.  Y cynnig oedd lleihau’r cwota ar gyfer y ddwy.  Yn y diwedd, bodlonodd y Comisiwn a’r Llywyddiaeth ar gynnydd o 5% yn y cwota morgathod a chynnydd o 7% ar gyfer Lledod Chwithig.

Meddai Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet: 


> “Rwy’n ddiolchgar i gynrychiolwyr y pysgodfeydd a physgotwyr hamdden am fy helpu i nodi pa stociau yng Nghymru sydd o ddiddordeb arbennig.  Gan fod y diwydiant eisoes wedi cynnal mesurau cynaliadwyedd gwirfoddol ac wedi cynhyrchu tystiolaeth gymdeithasol\-economaidd glir, roedd gennyf ddadleuon cadarn yn y cyfarfod â’r Llywyddiaeth a’r Comisiwn, gyda’m cyd\-Weinidogion, George Eustice, Gweinidog Gwladol Defra, Fergus Ewing MSP, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros y Gymuned Wledig a Chysylltedd, Llywodraeth yr Alban a Michell McIlveen MLA, Gweinidog Amaeth, yr Amgylchedd a Materion Gwledig, Llywodraeth Gogledd Iwerddon.  
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> “Yn unol â’n hymrwymiadau i reoli adnoddau naturiol yn gynaliadwy, fy mlaenoriaeth oedd diogelu stociau pysgod ond gan sicrhau hefyd ganlyniad positif i’r cymunedau arfordirol sydd â’u heconomïau’n dibynnu gymaint ar y môr.  Mae angen pysgota ar lefel gynaliadwy gan ddefnyddio’r cyngor gwyddonol gorau sydd ar gael. 
> 
> “Nid ar chwarae bach y cadwyd y ddysgl hon yn wastad yn y trafodaethau.  Ar y cyfan, rwy’n credu inni daro ar fargen deg a chryf rhwng diogelu buddiannau economaidd pysgotwyr bychain a physgotwyr hamdden ar y naill law a datblygu’r stoc i bwynt lle gallwn ei physgota’n gynaliadwy at y dyfodol ar y llall.”