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"Mr President, I shall start by also congratulating Mrs Stihler on her excellent report and on the excellent speech she made this evening in this House.
Everyone in this House is aware that fish stocks are in sharp decline across the EU. That is why the Commission has come to us with a radical new package of proposals for reform of the common fisheries policy. That is why we are facing an 18% cut in overall gross tonnage in the EU fleet, with the attendant massive impact that this will have on jobs in many economically challenged and remote peripheral areas of the Community.
However, we also understand that the two species at most serious risk of collapse are cod and northern hake. There is at least no doubt about the state of cod stocks. I would admit that there are, however, some doubts about the state of hake stocks. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) claims that hake stocks are on the verge of collapse. Other independent scientists claim the stocks are still at sustainable levels and they challenge the ICES findings.
As Mrs McKenna has pointed out in her speech this evening, we are pledged in this House to apply the precautionary principle whenever such doubts exist. In these circumstances, I would appeal to this House to reinstate hake in the Commission's recovery plan until such time as the scientific evidence can be analysed and verified in exactly the way Mr Varela Suanzes-Carpegna has called for this evening.
Yesterday, as we all know, a substantial number of Member States voiced their opposition to certain aspects of the Commission's proposals for reforming the CFP during the Fisheries Council. They want public aid to be used for building new vessels, they want open access to Community waters, they support short-term profits over long-term sustainability, they oppose change, they support the status quo. Theirs is surely a policy of despair. We cannot continue as we have done in the past. If we do so, it will not be only cod and hake that disappear, our fishing industry will disappear as well."@en1
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