MSP Welcomes ASDA' s Call For End Of CFP

Local SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed the announcement by Asda Supermarket calling for the Common Fisheries Policy to be scrapped.

Mr Stevenson commented:

“This is further confirmation of the urgent need to remove Scotland’s fishing industry from the clutches of the CFP.

“I welcome that Asda is in agreement with the SNP in recognising the need to withdraw from the CFP in order to protect the livelihoods of local Scottish fishermen and preserve fish stocks in the North Sea.

“The real threat to the marine environment lies in the Common Fisheries Policy, it has failed our fishing industry and been a disaster for our fishing communities. The CFP has failed to protect some key stocks whilst preventing our fishermen from catching Scotland’s premium stocks that are in plentiful supply such as prawn, haddock and monkfish. It is also a Policy that forces our fishermen to throw perfectly good fish back dead into the sea.

“Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands all have an economically viable and environmentally sustainable fishing industries out with the CFP. They would not dream of giving their crucial fishing industries away to the dead hand of Brussels mismanagement.”