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Thanks for those reflections.

Thank you. Elspeth—

—in relation to the wider ecological health of our oceans.

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.