I do welcome the plan, and I think that these things do take time, but the one thing that I will have to agree on with David Melding here is the data deficiency, and they are hugely important. If we're going to truly say that we know the state of our marine environment, we have to have the data that backs it up. I've had representations, the same as others have here, where organisations were dutifully collecting data, but their funding was removed or reduced to such a degree that they've no longer been able to continue that work.

Whilst we're on the issue of data deficiency, I also want to bring up the issue of monitoring. It's 12 months since the reintroduction of scallop dredging in Cardigan bay. It was hugely contentious at the time, both when it was stopped and when it was reintroduced, and we were promised that, one year later, we would hear something about any possible degradation of the sea bed that might have happened as a consequence of that reintroduction, which was the very reason that it was stopped. So, I'd like to see something in the plan that points us towards understanding how that monitoring as well as that data deficiency are going to be approached.

We've all heard mention here today about plastics, but we also need to look at microbeads and whether we should move in the direction of helping to ban those. There is plenty of evidence around at the moment that they're being ingested by fish and then by us and that they're prevalent even in sea salt now. The damage that is being done by us is pretty remarkable in that direction and we cannot say, 'Welcome to Wales' and invite people here to enjoy the beauty that is the sea unless we look after it. Really, that's what I would like to see; I'd like to see the balance. I don't want to repeat the issues that people have said here today, but I'd like to see the balance that absolutely gives us confidence that what we're doing isn't harmful to the sea, because it'd be very difficult to come to places like Pembrokeshire to enjoy the seabirds that are there—the puffins—in the report if we haven't actually looked at the harm that's being done within the protection zone that, again, relies on adequate data that tells us, and it's not there at the moment.