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dcterms:Date	"2010-02-09"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100209.15.2-305"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-02-09-Speech-2-3062
lpv:speaker	lp:Carmen Fraga Estévez2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 chair; PECH (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AGRI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-21--2012-02-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would also like to talk about commercial fishing species, and I would like to make it very clear that regional fisheries organisations are already responsible for managing and conserving these species. In fact, one only has to skim through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to realise that it is perhaps designed for elephants and polar bears, but it is not, of course, designed for commercial fishing species. I am not against protecting bluefin tuna, as that would be absurd, if only because of its importance to the fleet. I do, however, think that the measures need to be decided by bodies that have the best specialists in both managing fisheries and scientific research, because there is a reason why the CITES has to take external advice when it receives proposals on these species. I therefore think that the proposal to include bluefin tuna in Appendix 1 of CITES is unnecessary and unjustified, because it already has the measures imposed by International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). It is unfair, because it would gratuitously damage a fleet that has just embarked on a huge drive to reduce fishing, and even counterproductive, because it could give rise to an uncontrollable black market in bluefin tuna. I understand the enormous pressure that public opinion in general and this House in particular – as we are seeing – is experiencing from environmental NGOs. My political group has therefore decided to support inclusion in Appendix II as a compromise between the proposal of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and those of us who think that fisheries management cannot be snatched away from regional fisheries organisations. Our proposal is indeed based on the scientific advice to CITES. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has recommended that bluefin tuna only be included in Appendix II of CITES, which demonstrates that many people have not even read the FAO report."@en1
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