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Discarded Fish

EDM number 28 in 2007-08, proposed by Bill Wiggin on 06/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Fisheries and Food.

That this House expresses concern about the economic and environmental impact of discards; notes with concern the estimate that two million tonnes of healthy fish stock are discarded each year; is further concerned that in some UK fisheries discard rates exceed 50 per cent. meaning that more fish are thrown back into the sea than are landed; is disappointed that the member states of the European Union were unable to end discards in 2006, as was the objective in the 2002 Community Action Plan to reduce discards of fish (COM(2002)656 final, 26th November 2002); notes the proposals outlined in the Commission Communication: A Policy To Reduce Unwanted By-catches And Eliminate Discards in European Fisheries (European Union Document No. 8179/07); is disappointed that not all EU member states have been providing discard data to the Commission's Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries; is further disappointed that it is not clear when the EU Discards Atlas Project will be completed; and calls upon the Government to press other EU member states to produce sensible policies to end discarding at the earliest available opportunity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bill Wiggin06/11/2007LeominsterConservativeProposed
Peter Ainsworth06/11/2007East SurreyConservativeSeconded
Richard Benyon06/11/2007NewburyConservativeSeconded
Anne McIntosh06/11/2007Vale of YorkConservativeSeconded
James Paice06/11/2007South East CambridgeshireConservativeSeconded
Gregory Barker06/11/2007Bexhill and BattleConservativeSeconded
Julian Lewis07/11/2007New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Tim Loughton07/11/2007East Worthing and ShorehamConservativeSigned
Peter Luff07/11/2007Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Jeremy Corbyn07/11/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley07/11/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
David Taylor07/11/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Tom Brake08/11/2007Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed08/11/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
James Gray08/11/2007North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Derek Conway12/11/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
David Jones12/11/2007Clwyd WestConservativeSigned
Nicholas Winterton12/11/2007MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Nicholas Soames13/11/2007Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Robert Key13/11/2007SalisburyConservativeSigned
David Maclean13/11/2007Penrith and The BorderConservativeSigned
Michael Jabez Foster13/11/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Mike Hancock13/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Baldry13/11/2007BanburyConservativeSigned
Mark Lancaster13/11/2007North East Milton KeynesConservativeSigned
Michael Penning14/11/2007Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Ben Wallace14/11/2007Lancaster and WyreConservativeSigned
Malcolm Moss14/11/2007North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Peter Atkinson14/11/2007HexhamConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson15/11/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Michael Mates15/11/2007East HampshireConservativeSigned
Mark Pritchard19/11/2007The WrekinConservativeSigned
John Horam20/11/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins21/11/2007TamworthLabourSigned
David Drew21/11/2007StroudLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff21/11/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
David Wilshire21/11/2007SpelthorneConservativeSigned
Richard Younger-Ross22/11/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Rosindell28/11/2007RomfordConservativeSigned
Nigel Dodds28/11/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Christopher Fraser28/11/2007South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins29/11/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Nick Hurd29/11/2007Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Nick Harvey03/12/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Evans06/12/2007Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Bob Spink10/12/2007Castle PointConservativeSigned
Tim Farron17/12/2007Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Beith18/12/2007Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Selous07/01/2008South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Vincent Cable07/01/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Bercow08/01/2008BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Menzies Campbell14/01/2008North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
David Howarth15/01/2008CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Leigh23/01/2008GainsboroughConservativeSigned
John McDonnell25/11/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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