Extract from end of day adjournment debate on Seahorses: Illegal Trade in the UK - Dec 6
Friday, 7 December 2018 07:51
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (George
Eustice):...As with illegal trade, we are also working to protect
marine species on a global scale. The UK and our 14 overseas
territories are custodians of the fifth largest marine estate
in the world. We have committed to create a “blue belt” to protect
and conserve around 4 million sq km of waters around
the overseas territories. Seahorses also receive protection
through the UK’s Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981...Request free trial
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (George
Eustice):...As with illegal trade, we are also working to
protect marine species on a global scale. The UK and our
14 overseas territories are custodians of the
fifth largest marine estate in the world. We have committed to
create a “blue belt” to protect and conserve around 4 million sq km
of waters around the overseas territories. Seahorses also receive
protection through the UK’s Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and
through the listing of seahorses under CITES—the convention on
international trade in endangered species—and related EU
regulations. Trade in seahorses is indeed regulated rather than
prohibited. In the UK it is an offence to trade in species of
seahorse native to the UK unless there is evidence that the
seahorses have been captive bred. Where there is illegal trade in
seahorses—for example, where there is no evidence that the
specimens were legally imported—we can prosecute under the Control
of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations 2018...
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