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"en.20111117.4.4-110-500"2
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Overfishing poses a serious threat to biodiversity and sustainable marine environments. The situation is made more acute by illegal fishing, which further exacerbates the social and economic impacts of depleted fish stocks. Finally, the potential risks to food security continue to grow due to the fact that, for more than a billion inhabitants of planet Earth, fish and other seafood are the primary source of protein. The problem of illegal fishing is not that the means do not exist for surveillance or for securing evidence where the rules are broken. The problem is that everyone is always blaming something, and meanwhile half a million tonnes of illegally caught fish worth over a billion euro is imported into the EU every year. Lack of political will is harming both European fishermen and fish stocks. Tests of origin using the worldwide DNA database now cost about EUR 8 per sample, and large numbers do not have to be carried out: it is enough to carry out random testing. And if we can pay anyone to take satellite photographs of, or eavesdrop on, anyone anywhere on the globe, we can also occasionally use this technology for something sensible. Even here, the costs are not staggering in comparison with the losses caused by illegal fishing. It is therefore essential to examine the adequacy of the control mechanisms and their use in practice."@en1
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