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"en.20021205.3.4-120"2
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"This report, like many others in the last few months, raises some serious questions about the ‘sustainable development’ of fishing, about depleted fish stocks and bans on the fishing of this or that species in Community waters, about catch quotas or minimum fish sizes which have to be adhered to by fishermen in order to protect young fish, about fish populations etc. Yet there is one question which nobody is asking. How many of the fish that you claim to be saving will die in the next ‘Prestige’ oil-tanker disaster? How many others, day after day, are dying as a result of illegal emissions from the unseaworthy old tubs chartered by the big oil companies?
Of course the authorities announce major decisions, such as prohibiting the use of single-hull vessels ... and then they give the oil companies ten years to comply! They have ten years in which to carry on causing devastation along the coasts of Spain, France and elsewhere, and causing the deaths of an untold number of species of marine wildlife.
In order to save those species, and not forgetting those who earn their livelihood from fishing, the small-scale fishermen that you constantly harass when you are not driving them to ruin (by seeking to destroy part of the European fishing fleet, for example), why not start by putting your own rules into practice, such as the rules introduced after the ‘Erika’ disaster?"@en1
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