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The fisheries agreements which the EU concludes with developing countries are bad for the environment and bad for those countries. The fact that EU fishermen ostensibly feel forced to move their activities from EU waters to elsewhere indicates that the fish population in EU waters has apparently decreased by these activities, so much so that the yield is now no longer sufficient. This environmental problem must be tackled at source, namely by reducing the fleet capacity, not by overfishing elsewhere now. In addition, the agreements are bad for the local economy, since modern EU ships rob local fishermen of their catches. It is absurd that as part of the agreement, the EU should pay money to the governments of those countries in order to help the fishermen to find other jobs.
The amendments which the Committee on Fisheries and the ELDR have tabled to the Commission proposal are an improvement on the text of the agreement. D66 has therefore supported these amendments. Since we are opposed to the agreement as such for the above reasons, we have voted against the legislative resolution."@en1
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