Endangered Fish Species

EDM number 918 in 2005-06, proposed by Norman Baker on 01/11/2005.

That this House believes it should demonstrate its commitment to taking practical measures to reduce the impact of overfishing on the world's oceans by removing from sale in food outlets those species sourced from the most overexploited stocks or caught using the most destructive and wasteful fishing methods, including Atlantic cod, haddock, tropical prawns, swordfish and bluefin tuna, as noted in the Greenpeace Report A Recipe For Disaster; further believes that it should move immediately to adopt a fully sustainable seafood procurement policy; and recognises that unless immediate action is taken on these most vulnerable and destructively fished species to ensure their sustainability, there is a fundamental threat not just to those populations, but to the future of the British fishing industry as well.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.