The economic argument is the only one which washes with governments and large corporations. Nonetheless, why are we not protecting a resource which has existed since the Ice Age? Those fish travel thousands of miles at sea to return to the rivers in which they were born. I cannot understand why people are prepared to allow them be destroyed and those same people do not understand me when I talk in this manner. We have learned lessons from BSE and the use of hormones in agriculture and we must apply them with equal rigour to all food producing industries, whether they are at sea or elsewhere.