Call to end over-fishing to save supper as key stocks face collapse

KEY UK fish stocks could face "imminent" collapse without action to halt over-fishing, conservationists have warned.

- 

Oceana UK has called on the Government to set catch quotas and save the traditional British fish supper, as a report shows many fish stocks are in a perilous state.

The report reveals half the UK's top 10 commercial fish stocks are either at critically low levels or are being overexploited.

North Sea cod has been over-fished to critically low levels but is still being overexploited.

Other leading fish stocks under threat include Southern North Sea edible crab populations, North Sea herring and North East Atlantic mackerel.

The conservation charity warned over-fishing was "a political choice" and called for UK politicians to bring in a plan to halt it.