17469
1999-00
1184
Seal Culling
Tony Banks
2000-11-27
That this House utterly rejects the offensive demand from Mr David Sheil, Chairman of the Anglo-Scottish Fishermen's Federation to cull Britain's seal population; believes Mr Sheil's reported comments that seals are 'just helping themselves' and that they are 'pests' reveals a profound ignorance of the reasons for the decline in fish stocks which is entirely due to the grotesque overfishing by commercial fleets and fishing communities who venal, purblind and greedy activities have together destroyed fish stocks and, in turn, their own livelihoods; further believes that the culling of seals would be a disgraceful surrender to greed and stupidity; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to reject such calls and impose a total ban on cod fishing in British waters until stocks are once again replenished and in balance as nature determined before the intervention of modern fishing methods.
Tony Banks
2000-11-27
Proposed
West Ham
Labour
Nick Palmer
2000-11-28
Signed
Broxtowe
Labour
Jeremy Corbyn
2000-11-28
Signed
Islington North
Labour
Andrew Dismore
2000-11-28
Signed
Hendon
Labour
Mike Hancock
2000-11-28
Signed
Portsmouth South
Liberal Democrat
Glenda Jackson
2000-11-29
Signed
Hampstead & Highgate
Labour
Bill Michie
2000-11-29
Signed
Sheffield, Heeley
Labour
David Borrow
2000-11-29
Signed
South Ribble
Labour
Gerry Steinberg
2000-11-29
Signed
Durham, City of
Labour
Rudi Vis
2000-11-29
Signed
Finchley & Golders Green
Labour