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"I would thank you for your answer, Commissioner Borg and wish you luck with your fight in the FAO. No one gains anything from by-catches, and we are obliged to find methods of reducing them. When it is caught as by-catch, fishermen are forced to discard splendid cod caught in quantities over and above given quotas.
The rules must be laid down in such a way that no fish may be caught before it has had time to reproduce itself at least once. In the case of certain species, an increased minimum size can bring about a win-win situation in which, in the long term, we increase reproduction, the biomass and catches. We must therefore ensure that, where nets are concerned, mesh sizes are adjusted in accordance with these minimum sizes.
Moreover, it is time to devote more attention to by-catch of non-commercial fish. Internationally, there is growing opposition to these catches, especially of cute marine mammals, but also of other species. The rules have been focused upon commercial species but, in the interests of the biosystems and of the commercial species’ health, we must conserve and protect the non-commercial species too. Greater selectivity and research into ways of reducing these by-catches are necessary. In this context, it is important to remember that trying to avoid a species should not lead to increased by-catch of another species. If we do not find solutions to these problems, our oceans will soon be as empty as this House is at the moment."@en1
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