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On the pretext of preserving fish stocks in EU waters, the Commission wants to reducing fishing capacity with the loss of 28 000 direct jobs by 2006.
This report emphasises that the studies the Commission has based its proposals on are not very reliable. However, it in no way questions a process under which the biggest polluters are not paying. By that I mean pollutant waste from industry and large industrial fishing units, which nevertheless cause more damage to the sea than small-scale fishing.
Although we voted for the handful of timid support measures for wage-earners in the fisheries sector and for crew safety, we abstained on the report as a whole. We accept that it is in our own future interest to safeguard the planet’s fish resources. However, by refusing to deal with those who are really responsible for this threat, and furthermore by failing to tackle an anarchic economic system, under which competition and the pursuit of private profit mean that any attempt at rational planning is purely illusory, we are not dealing with the problem and are content to make small-scale fishermen foot the bill, which is unacceptable."@en1
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