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"Mr President, I thank the rapporteur in his absence and Mrs Langenhagen for her speech. Mrs Langenhagen has painted a very bleak picture of the state of cod in the Irish Sea.
The Irish Sea, as Mrs Langenhagen has said, is an example to us all of how a stock, if not managed correctly, can be decimated. In just six years the amount of cod caught in the Irish Sea has halved. In 1993, 11 000 tonnes of cod was caught and in 1999, 5 500 tonnes were caught. This regulation for 2001 is necessary, however painful, if there is to be a cod fisheries at all in the Irish Sea. It is an example to other areas as well. A similar situation has arisen in the North Sea. The cod stocks have declined so much that there has been a reduction of half in the total allowable catch and a new cod recovery programme introduced.
Vast stretches of the North Sea have been protected whilst the spawning season gets under way. However, another consequence of the ban in cod fisheries over the next few months has been that the other areas where there is no ban are beginning to worry. For example, in the Western Isles fishermen are concerned that because of the cod ban in the North Sea – and to some extent in the Irish Sea – cod stocks off the Butt of Lewis and south of Barra will be adversely effected. After years of sustainable fisheries in these waters people fear that the adverse effect of these protective measures will be a decimation of their own stocks.
These fears can only be compounded when just last week in Mallaig, with the opening of the scallop beds, a dramatic increase in boats could be witnessed, which would otherwise have been fishing for the banned species. We have to think about the adverse effects on other fisheries when protective measures are introduced. It is somewhat ironic that in protecting fish stocks in one area we are inadvertently destroying stocks in another area.
In conclusion, the reform of the common fisheries policy and the launch of the Green Paper in March are critical to stock preservation and to the fishing industry. We have to get the balance right between sustainability and a successful industry on the other hand. The reform of the common fisheries policy, I believe, is an opportunity. We must make sure that we get the reforms right.
I thank the rapporteur in his absence."@en1
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