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The report is correct in its comments on the dangers which will be faced by small-scale fishing (which accounts for 75% of Community fishing vessels) with the application of the new common fisheries policy, which will result in a loss of 28 000 jobs, economic stagnation and the abandonment of coastal areas.
The report does not, however, dispute the policy which produces the hardships, which it confines itself to describing. On the contrary, it takes them as given and is merely interested in moderating the consequences, in slowing down the rate at which they emerge and in ‘countering’ the losses. The rapporteur harbours delusions about the intentions of the Commission which he calls on to … consider its options.
We do not harbour any such delusions. The applied fisheries policy and the proposed policy, as it stands or with a few amendments, prove that the EU is heading straight in the direction of handing the exploitation of fisheries resources over to big business. This is the direction being taken by the funding measures to scrap small and medium-sized fishing vessels in order to wipe out small and medium-sized fishermen and further reinforce the fishing capabilities of large vessels. No reversal in the situation can be achieved with wish lists and appeals to the Commission's better nature. Only fishermen themselves and their fight can reverse these policies and prevent their extermination."@en1
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