Supermarket chain Asda has become the latest business to back the UK Independence Party’s demand that Britain should pull out of the EU’s ‘disastrous’ Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
“This is marvellous news”, said Nigel Farage MEP on 6 September, just before a debate on Fisheries at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “As more and more businesses realise that the collapse of fish stocks around the British Isles is directly attributable to the CFP, then slowly the message will get through, the EU’s policies and central control is unsustainable”. Gordon Maddan, regulatory affairs manager at Asda, said: “We want all the fish we sell to be sustainable. It’s very clear however that the Common Fisheries Policy has failed to deliver this so we are now supporting calls for a radical change in approach.”
