Driftnetting And Dolphins

EDM number 1243 in 1990-91, proposed by Ron Davies on 15/10/1991.

That this House, acknowledging the indiscriminate destruction of marine wildlife including dolphins caused by drift netting, recalling that in 1989 the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously for a world-wide ban on the use of large-scale drift nets to be implemented by June 1991, noting that nevertheless the Government did not prevent three Cornish fishing vessels joining a drift netting fleet in the North East Atlantic this summer, noting the consequences of this inaction included the suffering and death of dolphins in the nets of these vessels as recorded by one of the Government's observers and noting that the European Community Fisheries Ministers are meeting on 28th October 1991 to vote on a proposed ban on the use of drift nets of over 2.5 kilometres on European Community vessels and on all vessels in European Community waters, calls on the Government to ban the use of large drift nets by British vessels and to do everything in its power to ensure that the proposed ban on drift nets of over 2.5 kilometres on European Community vessels and in European Community waters is implemented.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs.