PROTECTING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- Session: 2005-06
- Date tabled: 17.05.2005
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
That this House supports and welcomes the commitment to clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas outlined in the Government's first Marine Stewardship Report; is concerned, however, about the ever-increasing pressure on the marine environment from coastal and offshore activities; believes that continued degradation threatens the long-term survival of internationally valuable habitats, wildlife and maritime archaeology; believes that such degradation of the marine environment is detrimental to the economic activities dependent on marine resources; notes that the United Kingdom does not have a strategic and co-ordinated approach for managing marine resources and for protecting the biological and cultural heritage; and calls upon the Government to introduce, at the earliest opportunity, comprehensive legislation to protect and manage the marine environment in an integrated and sustainable manner.