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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as coordinator of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats and on behalf of my group, I would like to express our full support for the oral question and the resolution presented by Mr Stevenson on behalf of the Committee on Fisheries, in which, as he has just said, it has been approved practically unanimously.
Fishing is an economic activity. Sometimes we worry more about fish than about fishermen and we have to deal with both. It is true that it is an economic activity that involves a natural resource which must be protected. But this protection should be carried out through reasonable long-term measures, with expert scientific support – one of the European Union’s outstanding tasks – and with the support of the sector in question. And when these measures are taken in this way, the sector itself will accept them better. Furthermore, we must lay down accompanying socio-economic measures in order to alleviate their possible consequences.
The motion for a resolution being presented today to the plenum in the name of the Committee on Fisheries has been entirely accepted and moves in the direction which we have discussed in the Committee on Fisheries not only for cod and for these white species, but for all species in general. Today we are talking about cod and all the white species, but tomorrow we may talk about others and I believe that the solidarity with the people affected is laudable – in this case with the Nordic fishermen and essentially with the countries mentioned here, as well as Scotland, and all the Members have worked together on this.
I have been pleased by the words of the Commissioner in support of these measures proposed in the committee and I would like, Mr President, on a personal basis and as a Galician, to say that, just as this House showed solidarity with Galicia in the case of the failure to reach an agreement with Morocco or following the
accident, it is now the turn of the Nordic countries and the Scots and we will stand together and show mutual solidarity."@en1
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