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"Mr President, I thank the rapporteur and the Commissioner.
The regional fisheries organisations and the Community's participation in them is an important issue. Covering nearly all the high seas these organisations provide an instrument to ensure active conservation and management of the fisheries resource. It is this precious resource that I should like to turn to.
We face a depletion of stocks already which puts fishing into a crisis situation. There is over-fishing, pollution of our seas, the climate is changing – we see that at the conference at the Hague at the moment – and the physical alteration of the environment puts increasing pressure on these finite resources.
Reform of the CFP will be critical but getting the right reforms will be even more important. In Scotland the Scottish Fishermen's Federation and the World Wildlife Fund have got together to propose the concept of zonal regional management. The fisheries management scheme would involve all interest groups in a particular region. Although initially merely advisory in its recommendations, it is hoped that by illustrating efficiency and effectiveness over time it would earn a management role.
The development of a regionalisation of the CFP will be critical in ensuring local action. Regional fisheries organisations provided a role on an international scale and regional or zonal management can make the global become local. It will truly make for sustainable fisheries."@en1
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