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What about regeneration? Do your members support regeneration in the inshore? Is a cap part of that?

Calum, do you want to comment?

No, it is not.

Would that feed into more designation of marine protected areas? I will not put an H in front of that, but would that approach, which you suggested is working in Shetland, lead to more designation and better management? That is the objective of the 30 by 30 target.

Thank you for your answers. I have one more question. I will put it to specific panel members, as time is marching on. We have touched on this but, thinking about the 30 by 30 target, nature restoration and ecological restoration in our seas, what are your thoughts on the current approach to fisheries management? Is it delivering on the objectives? What needs to change? I will bring in Phil Taylor, Elspeth Macdonald and then Calum Duncan.

The 30 by 30 targets that are embodied in the global biodiversity framework are hugely important. What are their implications for the designation of marine protected areas and for the management of those areas? Given the comments that were made earlier about mainstreaming, where should those targets sit? Should they sit at the top of the aquaculture strategy? Should they be in the fisheries strategy as well? Should there be an explicit ambition, or a secondary one, for sectors to work towards their delivery? Maybe we could start with the witness on the right and move across the table.

You would like to see the detail on that.

Yes. I ask Elspeth to respond to my question.

That was a useful exploration of implementation. I do not think that I have time to go into aquaculture, convener, so I will leave that to you.

We have not chased him off.

I want to go back to the deputy’s convener’s point about a just transition. The committee spends a lot of time thinking about what a just transition will look like for the energy sector. We have also considered how a just transition is embedded in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Is it important to embed those principles in this approach? Perhaps we could ask our sector representatives whether there was, say, a transition when inshore fisheries moved away from scallop dredging. Could other economic opportunities arise from that? Is it important that a just transition approach is applied to that? To take salmon farming as an example, in the future, might there be the retiral of open-pen salmon farms, if you can imagine that, and a move towards other technologies? How do you take workers and sectors with you?