English: Thank you very much, and thank you for your patience and your assistance in the face of IT difficulties. The people of Anglesey and the banks of the Menai will be very familiar with the title of my debate today. The Prince Madog and its predecessor the original Prince Madog have been a familiar sight tied to the pier in Menai Bridge for decades, and I'm proud to be able to show it on the screens around us in the Chamber today. It's the largest ship to be seen regularly on the Menai strait and all those who are proud of it know it's a symbol of excellence in the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor. Well, I hope I can make you even more proud of this vessel over the next 10 minutes and to persuade you of the importance of the Prince Madog now and its national potential for years to come. I look forward to hearing the Government's response, and may I also say that I've agreed to give some time to Mark Isherwood to respond to my comments also? We'll start with some context. At 34m long, the RV Prince Madog is the largest research vessel in the higher education sector in the whole of the UK. It was built in 2001, but the investment in the vessel since then means that it's a very modern vessel that can deal with a broad range of research tasks in Welsh waters and beyond within the continental shelf. It has multibeam sonar equipment for high-resolution mapping. It includes a side-scan sonar for sea bed morphology and profiling equipment for sub-bottom profiling to study the structure of the sea bed. It carries acoustic doppler current profiler equipment in order to measure current, CTD to take water measurements, and it carries equipment to assess everything that lives on the sea bed and in the water column, from plankton to fish species. It can work 24 hours a day for 10 days uninterrupted. In addition to that, of course, Bangor University has the scientific expertise to analyse and to use all of the data generated. In summary, therefore, the Prince Madog - the vessel, its equipment and the people who work with it - is exactly what is required to study the seas around Wales, and there's a great deal to study. We have 2,200 km of coastline, but our responsibilities and the responsibilities of Government extend way beyond that coastline - 200 miles out. The surface of Wales - the land, that is - is some 21,000 sq km, but we have 32,000 sq km of sea bed, but we know little of it well. It's a small proportion that has been studied and mapped. The marine plan for Wales was published in November 2015. It was about time that we had one, I have to say, and the plan states that the Wales marine area includes valuable and varied natural resources that can provide significant economic and social opportunities and which contribute to the well-being of the nation and of future generations. It's a statement that I agree entirely with, but, in reality, we know virtually nothing about those resources. It's staggering how little of our sea bed has been mapped, given the detailed onshore mapping. Mapping of this kind is a priority on an EU level and has been for some time. This is what a commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries said:
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi, a diolch am eich amynedd chi a'ch cymorth chi yn wyneb trafferthion cyfrifiadurol. Mi fydd pobl Môn a glannau'r Fenai yn gyfarwydd iawn efo testun fy nadl i heddiw. Mae llong y Prince Madog a'i rhagflaenydd, y Prince Madog gwreiddiol, wedi bod yn olygfa gyfarwydd iawn, wedi'i rhaffu i bier Porthaethwy ers degawdau. Rwy'n falch o gael ei dangos hi ar y sgriniau o'n cwmpas ni yma yn y Siambr heddiw. Hi ydy'r llong fwyaf i'w gweld yn gyson ar y Fenai, ac i bawb sy'n falch ohoni hi, sy'n gwybod ei bod hi'n symbol o ragoriaeth adran gwyddorau eigion Prifysgol Bangor ym Mhorthaethwy, wel, rwy'n gobeithio y gallaf eich gwneud chi'n fwy balch byth ohoni hi yn y 10 munud nesaf, a'ch perswadio chi o bwysigrwydd y Prince Madog rŵan, a'i photensial cenedlaethol hi mewn blynyddoedd i ddod. Rwy'n edrych ymlaen at ymateb y Llywodraeth, ac a gaf i ddweud hefyd fy mod i wedi cytuno i roi amser i Mark Isherwood ymateb i'm sylwadau i hefyd? Mi ddechreuwn ni efo rhywfaint o gyd-destun. Yn 34m o hyd, yr RV Prince Madog ydy'r llong ymchwil fwyaf yn y sector addysg uwch ym Mhrydain gyfan. Yn 2001 y cafodd hi ei hadeiladu, ond mae'r buddsoddi sydd wedi bod ynddi hi ers hynny yn golygu ei bod hi'n llong fodern iawn, sy'n gallu ymgymryd efo ystod eang o dasgau ymchwil yn nyfroedd Cymru a thu hwnt o fewn ffiniau'r silff gyfandirol. Mae'n cynnwys offer sonar multibeam ar gyfer mapio safon uchel, neu high resolution. Mae'n cynnwys side-scan sonar ar gyfer morffoleg gwely'r môr, offer proffilio dan wely'r môr, neu sub-bottom profiler, i astudio strwythur gwely'r môr. Mae'n cario offer ADCP ar gyfer mesur cerrynt, CTD i wneud mesuriadau yn y dŵr, ac mae'n cario offer i asesu popeth sy'n byw ar y gwaelod ac yn y golofn ddŵr, o blancton i bysgod. Mae'n gallu gweithio 24 awr y dydd am 10 diwrnod yn ddidor. Ac, ar ben hynny, wrth gwrs, mae gan Brifysgol Bangor y gallu gwyddonol i ddadansoddi a defnyddio'r holl ddata sy'n cael ei gasglu. I grynhoi, mae'r Prince Madog, felly - y llong, ei hoffer, a'r bobl sydd y tu cefn iddi - yr union beth sydd ei angen i astudio moroedd Cymru. Ac mae yna lot i'w astudio. Mae gennym ni 2,200 km o arfordir. Ond, wrth gwrs, mae'n cyfrifoldebau ni, a chyfrifoldebau'r Llywodraeth, yn ymestyn ymhell tu hwnt i'r arfordir hwnnw - 200 milltir. Arwynebedd Cymru - y tir, hynny ydy - ydy rhyw 21,000 km sgwâr, ond mae gennym ni 32,000 km sgwâr o wely môr, ond ychydig iawn o hwnnw yr ydym ni'n ei adnabod yn dda - cyfran fechan iawn ohono fo sydd wedi cael ei hastudio a'i mapio. Mi gafodd cynllun morol i Gymru ei gyhoeddi ym mis Tachwedd 2015. Hen bryd cael un, mae'n rhaid dweud, ac ynddo mae'n dweud bod ardal forol Cymru'n cynnwys adnoddau naturiol gwerthfawr ac amrywiol a all gynnig cyfleoedd economaidd a chymdeithasol sylweddol ac sy'n cyfrannu at les y genedl a lles cenedlaethau'r dyfodol. Mae'n ddatganiad rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr ag o, ond, mewn difrif, rydym ni'n gwybod fawr ddim manylion am yr adnoddau yna. Mae'n rhyfeddol cyn lleied o'n gwely môr ni sydd wedi cael ei fapio o ystyried manylder mapio'r tir. Ac mae mapio o'r math yma'n flaenoriaeth ar lefel Undeb Ewropeaidd ers tro. Dyma a ddywedodd comisiynydd dros faterion morwrol a physgodfeydd: