I don't know if it had something to do with our stall being right next to the cider tent at the Bloomsbury Festival yesterday, but the fish puns were coming out from shark to fin-ish. We were carping on about the Common Fisheries Policy again, giving visitors the chance to tell David Cameron that they've haddock enough of the overfishing, the discards and the corruption going on in our fishing industries.
We weren't there just for the halibut, there was serious work to be done. And we'd come to the right plaice. We collected a great stack of letters to which people had added their messages. All the contributions were eel-y good, and people were very interested and supportive. Many were shocked by the cod awful truth about the disastrous effects of the current CFP, that it was unfit for porpoise, and some thought it must have been created by a bunch of pollacks.
Next year, we have the opper-tuna-ty to reshape the CFP. The UK Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon, has promised radical reform, but he will need the public backing of our Prime Minister at the negotiating table to ensure we get the deal that we, and our seas, need. We need to tell David Cameron that it's vital we get this right.
Don't be koi, add your name to the petition here.
Tank you.
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