Tory skates in for fish stocks campaign

From: The Northern Echo | Date: October 10, 2002 | Copyright information

An MEP launched a campaign to save Britain's fish stocks yesterday and has asked people to call him McMillan-Skate rather than McMillan- Scott, in an attempt to highlight the problem.

Tory Edward McMillan-Skate, MEP for Yorkshire and Humberside, has produced a five-language guide listing 40 species - coupled with a "get tough or get out" call to Prime Minister Tony Blair to save British fish stocks from the EU.

The fish card was launched at the Tory conference in Bournemouth yesterday, when the party debated its EU policy.

"My card says, 'Cherish fish or it will disappear' in the main EU ...

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