Marine Environment And Fishing Communities

EDM number 373 in 2006-07, proposed by Alex Salmond on 30/11/2006.

That this House notes the publication of the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership Report, which indicates that the cod species has moved northwards in the North Sea as a result of sea warming changing the distribution of plankton; calls for these findings to be accorded serious consideration by policymakers in the UK fishery departments and the European Commission who have been pursuing a deeply damaging policy designed to restore the cod species to areas of the North Sea that may be no longer suitable, thereby occasioning drastic fishing-effort reductions which have impacted on the allowable catches of plentiful species such as haddock and nephrops; and demands that no further attacks on the livelihoods of coastal communities be contemplated without a proper understanding and review of the complex forces at work in the marine environment.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.