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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank Mr Ó Neachtain for the work he has done in performing a careful analysis of the problems facing inshore fishing in the European Union.
The report quite rightly considers the role of women to be important at last, recognises their difficulties in operating in this sector, refers to the subject of on-board safety, and highlights the importance of professional training and the role that inshore fishing can have in protecting and conserving the coastal marine environment.
I should, however, like to mention two aspects that are important for my country, Italy, and not only for the south of the country but also for the northern Adriatic.
First, I believe that inshore resources need to be protected and that legislation is needed to ensure that fishing is sustainable and does not harm the environment. However, the proposal to ban all fishing techniques that threaten the survival of inshore resources and the economic sustainability of the social fabric associated with fishing may well be a fair provision but it would leave many operators in difficulties, in that they would be left without work for lack of any feasible alternative proposals for a sector that is already going through a serious unemployment crisis.
Secondly, insufficient attention has been devoted to producers’ associations and the positive role that they could play in contributing to the socio-economic development of fisheries-dependent communities. Being able to relate the management of local fisheries to local conditions and to the Member States would reinforce the principle of subsidiarity that our fishing communities would like to see in the management of inshore fishing, and would bring their problems closer to the source of solutions.
The Regional Advisory Councils themselves should encourage dialogue between the European Union and local actors. These councils, seven of which are planned although only four have been set up, are considered neither functional nor powerful enough to manage small-scale fisheries resources, since they are only advisory bodies.
To conclude, I should like to thank Commissioner Borg for the important work he has done, particularly in connection with the Green Paper on the future of the common fisheries policy, which proposes making the various sectors involved in the management of maritime policy interact with each other."@en1
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