Secondly, there is a Crisis of Conservation of fish stocks, a problem becoming increasingly acute as the international fishing effort is concentrated in smaller and smaller areas round our coasts.

The Conservation Crisis is the prime reason why the Government must not compromise in the Common Market negotiations.

We are in a Conservation Crisis.

As we have a Conservation Crisis in the North sea in particular, a proper system of conservation would require a ban on industrial fishing, a ban on bream trawling and a ban on fishing in spawning grounds during the spawning season.

As a result, a Conservation Crisis has developed, threatening the lives and well-being of the fishermen of this country.

It was supposed to conserve stocks, but we have a Conservation Crisis; it was supposed to bring harmony, but we have conflict; it was supposed to develop the industry, but we have a shrunken, battered industry; it was supposed to sustain a law, but it is driving fishermen to illegality.

Given that there is a Conservation Crisis in fishing as a result of the common fisheries policy and that there will be continuous pressure for decommissioning, would it not be more sensible not to take out conservation-effective fishing vessels, such as Grimsby's seine-netter fleet, but to rearrange the programme to give priority to taking out, first, the bigger and more efficient vessels, those whose activities are more damaging to conservation and the environment and those vessels whose track record shows that they have been making the biggest catches?

There is clearly a Conservation Crisis, or a stocks crisis, affecting large sections of fishing.

We have a Massive Conservation Crisis around the coast: landings are down by 40 per cent.

in the 1990s, yet we still have a Conservation Crisis, so something more than the fishing effort is causing the problem.

If we are to build more power stations and if it is possible to prevent fish stocks from being destroyed, we should surely act because we have a Conservation Crisis on our hands.

To an extent, that attitude continued as fishing moved into a Conservation Crisis caused, essentially, by the CFP itself.

In the past couple of years, it has borne the brunt of cuts - made necessary by the Conservation Crisis - that the common fisheries policy itself imposed.

My hon. Friendthe Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Katy Clark) spoke about marine conservation zones and referred to a Conservation Crisis.