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"The annual policy strategy for 2003 contains some key initiatives on the development of a sustainable and inclusive economy. In particular, the Commission wishes to tackle the mid-term review of the CAP and the reform of the CFP. Together these two major policy areas swallow half of the total EU budget but both the CAP and CFP have failed to meet their core objectives. They have failed to safeguard jobs. They have failed to secure a fair standard of living for our rural communities and they have failed to achieve sustainability.
With that record of failure radical reform is long overdue and I am pleased to see that such proposals are central to the policy strategy for 2003. Indeed, in mid-April, the European Commission will publish its legislative proposals for the reform of the common fisheries policy. The centrepiece of this reform package will surely be devolution, devolving fisheries management to key stakeholders in discrete fishing zones. Although these committees will only act in an advisory capacity, at least initially, by involving fishermen, scientists and marine ecologists they will mark a dramatic step towards decentralisation of power, away from Brussels, and back to the grass roots. At a time of collapsing fish stocks, diminishing fleets, lost jobs, decommissioning, tie-ups and lay-offs, such an initiative could not come too soon and is to be greatly welcomed.
In the EU we have far too many fishermen chasing far too few fish. We need an overall cut in the capacity of around 40% of the fleet, but let me make a special plea to the Commission and to the Council. Please do not export our problems of over-fishing and over-exploitation of resources out of the EU and into third countries. Recent case studies in Mauritania and Senegal show that they have depleted stocks. In Mauritania, catches of octopus have halved in the past four years. Some species, such as sawfish, have disappeared altogether. I applaud the policy strategy for seeking sustainable and inclusive objectives but let us remember such objectives must apply outside the EU just as much as inside."@en1
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