Friday, November 03, 2006

Fish to become extinct


Britain
has to protect its fishing industry, despite warnings stocks could be virtually wiped out by 2048, the UK fisheries minister has said.

Ben Bradshaw said the warning, issued by scientists on Thursday, represented the world's biggest environmental challenge after global warming.

So, Mr Bradshaw are we going to be getting out of the European Union so that we are no longer signed up to the Common Fisheries Policy which would stop foreign fisherman from coming into British waters?

Wouldn’t it be best to only allow British fisherman to fish in British waters? You know the more fishermen there is the less fish there will be in the future but you already know that don’t you?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

An island built on coal and surrounded by fish. Now we import gas and oil and allow foreigners to catch more of our fish than our own fishermen.

Not only that - we throw back millions of perfectly good fish (dead) because the CFP says they can not be landed.

It doesn't take a genius to realise that if you keep catching good fish and throwing them away you are going to be depleting fish stocks a lot faster than otherwise.