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"Mr President, there must be no doubt at all about the objective of the harsh measures proposed by the Commission and endorsed by the Council concerning cod stocks in the North Sea. The aim is, in fact, long-term restocking designed to preserve as many jobs as possible in the fishing communities that have been netting white fish for years and that are to be temporarily and fairly compensated and not required to diversify once and for all into other areas of activity. In order to attain this objective, we need not, however, confine ourselves to these draconian measures for limiting the number of days on which fishing is engaged in. It is imperative that we learn lessons from the Canadian experience, which we need to examine very carefully indeed.
The moratorium introduced in the North Atlantic twelve years ago has not, I regret to say, had the expected effect. The cessation of fishing has had no effect upon the state of cod stocks off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Forty thousand jobs have been destroyed but, for all that, there has been no restocking. The Canadians now recognise that fishing is just one factor among others in the development of cod stocks. Other factors play key roles and must be studied much more shrewdly and taken into account to the same extent as fishing: climatic factors, the change in water temperature, the importance of natural mortality and the significant removal of cod by seals, of which there is a population explosion, as well as by mackerel and herring, which are proving to be great consumers of cod eggs. It would also seem that, in Canada, fishermen have not been sufficiently involved in the preparation and management of restocking plans.
If we want our game plan to give us every chance of success, it is therefore vital quickly to define a framework in which it will be possible to collate local experience and scientific expertise on a permanent basis and not confine ourselves to banning fishing and keeping vessels in port, as if such measures alone were automatically going to result in restocking. The latter, rudimentary courses of action must necessarily and quickly be supplemented by in-depth analyses – funded through the release of financial resources – of a wide range of factors, extending to include the effects of fishing for the purpose of producing fishmeal. This would make it possible to implement a much more elaborate administration policy and so to preserve as far as possible what must remain our chief objective: a future for the fishing communities concerned."@en1
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