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"Madam President, I voted for Mr Varela’s report on the Republic of Guinea fisheries agreement, even if prawns and tuna will not look very favourably on this report which regulates catching them. I gave Mr Fernández Martín my opinion when we were talking about the Canary Islands, and he quite rightly said: “Yes, but prawns do not vote, besides which I am a fisherman.”
Madam President, this report has shortcomings, in that it gives money to the Republic of Guinea, on the one hand, to help replenish fish stocks and reduce the number of fish caught, and, on the other, to send European Union fishing boats to those seas to catch prawns and tuna. Well, I think that this is a form of colonialism which must be stopped.
With regard to Mr Varela’s second report, on the Mauritius fisheries agreement, I did indeed vote in favour, Madam President, but I must emphasise that it was not an easy decision. Why? Because the Committee on Development and Cooperation tabled an amendment asking for fishermen’s wages and, I would add, their pensions to be monitored. Unfortunately, this amendment was not adopted. Now, with this document, we are about to conclude a trade agreement, and we are giving away Union funds but are not requesting to be able to monitor the fishermen’s contracts. In my view, that is not a good move."@en1
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