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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank Mr Stevenson for his report. This report on the multiannual plan for the stock of herring distributed to the west of Scotland is testament to the important role Parliament has to play with regard to multiannual plans in the codecision procedure. I am pleased with the importance granted to the multiannual plan in this reform which is in progress. It is a common sense approach.
Within the framework of this reform, our number one objective is to preserve resources – some of my fellow Members have already said this. This objective can only be achieved hand in hand with professionals from the fisheries sector. On Tuesday, the Member States voted in favour of banning discards of fish. This sends a very bad signal from the Council. However, as I recall, Parliament codecides this reform with the Council. The zero discard policy, as proposed by the Commission, is unrealistic and dangerous for fishing activity.
What I would suggest to Parliament, personally, is a significant but progressive reduction in the number of discards. Rather than adopting a dogmatic stance, the solution to this problem of discards can only be reached using a pragmatic approach.
Lastly, the Commission’s plan suggests putting in place transferable fishing concessions. This proposal alone represents a very serious threat to our fisheries model. The Commission wants to put resource management back into the hands of the market alone. I think that it is up to Member States to decide on how fishing rights should be managed, as is already the case elsewhere. We will not achieve an effective and fair reform by weakening fishing activity."@en1
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