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"Mr President, my speech also concerns the cod fishing crisis. Researchers in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea have found that cod stocks in the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Skagerrak are threatened by total collapse. They demand a total ban. Are we listening to their advice and suggestions? No, we are trying to find all manner of arguments for avoiding taking our responsibility. I think it is outrageous to hear members here in this house, above all the chairman of the Committee on Fisheries, blaming the Commission when it is doing its best to accept its responsibility.
The ICES verdict on the Baltic is possibly a little more difficult to interpret, but it seems as though they are looking to start out from the most optimistic point of view regarding, for example, illicit fishing. Sweden has decided, however, that a unilateral fishing ban on cod will apply, for we are living by the precautionary principle. If we do not do this, it might mean the complete destruction of the future of the fishing industry.
My question to the Commission now is: does the Commission fully support the Swedish unilateral fishing ban? Can Commissioner Fischler repeat what he said when he was in Sweden recently, to the effect that he also supports compensation for fishermen?"@en1
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