Common Fisheries Policy

Part of Backbench Business – in the House of Commons at 4:00 pm on 15 March 2012.

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Photo of Andrew George Andrew George Liberal Democrat, St Ives 4:00, 15 March 2012

On the primary thesis that the hon. Gentleman seeks to advance, he claims that fishing communities are in decline because of overfishing, but might it not also be because of inept policy, whereby fishermen have to catch far more fish but most are thrown back dead?