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Mr President, Mr Winkler, the oral question to which we owe this evening’s debate, together with the proposals that will be submitted to our Parliament for tomorrow’s vote, are based on the observation that the only management measures to have applied to Mediterranean fisheries up to now date back to 1994. However, these measures are no longer suited to the resource situation or to the decisions taken on other EU shores. These decisions are aimed at implementing a common fisheries policy allowing the sustainable development of this sector of our economy and the preservation of the resources that the Union must, in order to provide enough food for its fellow citizens in the long-term, carry on being able to utilise by exploiting its own seas.
Such a time-lag is due, first of all, to the fact that the Mediterranean is recognised as being one of the most diversified and most complex regions, as much from a biological point of view as from ecological, social and economic ones. That is why our Parliament had been unable to reach an agreement during the previous legislature and why Mr Lisi’s report had resulted in an admission of failure. That is also why this subject was put back on the working agenda of this new legislature as a priority and why it gave rise to a very delicate compromise at the conclusion of the work of our rapporteur, Mrs Carmen Fraga, to whose personal commitment I have a duty to pay tribute in this Chamber.
This report was adopted – firstly in committee, and then in plenary – back in June. Its recommended measures have not, to date, been the subject of any implementing decision by the Council. We are aware of some of the reasons for this wait-and-see policy, but I personally had informed my colleagues about the measures in an attempt to push through a number of amendments aimed at preventing the ban on the use of certain types of nets traditionally used by fishermen in the region.
This matter affected, and continues to affect, 75 boats that ensure the livelihood of 350 families and that generate 80% of the fishermen’s turnover when they use anchored nets, known as
The disadvantage of this type of fishing was that dolphins were being accidentally caught. That was until the profession finalised a programme permitting an 80% reduction in these accidental catches through the implementation of sound repellents and the systematic presence of observers on board the boats.
If I am bringing this subject up again, it is because the socio-economic repercussions of the recommended measures certainly deserve more in-depth consideration. That is why I support, and why my group will support, the proposal for a resolution tabled by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Article 4 of which demands that the fishermen affected by the new regulation and forced to change their fishing methods be properly compensated.
During yesterday’s meeting of our committee, the European Commissioner responsible for Fisheries, Dr Joe Borg, was able to gauge just how incensed our Spanish friends had become at the prospect of a ban on the gillnets used for fishing in certain zones close to the Spanish coast. This ban would create an uncertain future for the fleet of 80 boats, which ensure the livelihood of 1 500 people. We have here a case altogether similar to that of the small-scale fisheries on the French coasts of the Mediterranean.
That being said, Mr President, and while I can understand that certain decisions proposed by the Fraga report deserve to be discussed further and perhaps supplemented by an impact study, that would not justify indefinitely suspending the application of the entire content of a report that, as everyone agrees, is in itself a good compromise."@en1
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