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"Mr President, it was a matter of huge satisfaction, I am sure to yourself as well as to myself, that the resolution on the crisis in the fishing sector was carried by such a vast majority as 508 to 7, with 27 abstentions. That really does represent a ringing endorsement by the European Parliament of the need to take decisive steps to give assistance to an industry which is in crisis and nowhere more so, as you well know, than in Scotland at the present time.
I recently visited Eyemouth in the south of Scotland and will shortly visit both Oban and Campbeltown on the west coast. These are communities gravely affected by this crisis, but even worse is the situation in the north of Scotland.
If we cannot do things adequately to help that industry it will collapse. Thus even when the cod stocks are restored, there will be no viable industry to go out and catch them. This is a vital part of a sustainable diet for Europeans in the future. We must have an adequate fishing industry. We must support it properly and, if we put up the money, our government in the United Kingdom must take it up. It has been said that they will not go cap in hand to the Commission looking for money. This is not cap in hand. The money is willingly being offered. Let it be taken up."@en1
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