David Norris (Independent)

If we had stayed out of it and kept our fish stocks, we would be in a better position than we are now. We should remind our European colleagues of that. France, Portugal and Spain have consistently devastated their own stocks before setting off to pillage those of others. Many years ago, I offered support to the Canadians in their dispute with European fishermen who had gone as far as the cod banks off Newfoundland and were destroying the fish stocks there. Our Ministers are strongly deserving of our support in this matter.