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"Mr President, we have indeed a historic vote tomorrow. We have a chance not only to do something good for fish and for fishermen, but also something good for Europe, because without doubt the common fisheries policy has not been an ornament to this Union. It has been criticised enormously, and not least by the Commissioner, who has herself described it as a failure – and you cannot get more blunt than that.
The problems, of course, have not been that we do not share our seas in common or our fish in common, but that the policy has been wrong. Year after year, each December, Ministers have got together and set TACs and quotas for the following year, too often ignoring the scientific advice and too often, let it be said, listening to the fishermen. Fishermen can be their own worst enemy in looking only to the short term rather than planning for the long term, and urging ministers to exceed quotas even if it reduces fish stocks in the long term.
Now the Commission has put forward proposals for change – long-term management plans for every fishery – and I thank the Irish Fisheries Minister for the efforts he is making in freeing the logjam and ensuring that discussions take place between Parliament and Council to make progress on the dossier.
We have a chance to rebuild fish stocks above maximum sustainable yield (MSY), as we have heard, and to end discards, which are just a moral disgrace; it is a disgrace to throw millions of tonnes of perfectly edible fish overboard.
Of course there are going to be problems. There are going to be problems in managing mixed fisheries to achieve MSY. And there will be problems in ending discards. But let us look to the goal. The goal is to rebuild fish stocks, to recreate the abundance that once existed and to restore our seas to that state. The problems will fade away and be easily dealt with if there are more fish in the seas, if there is a secure future for fishermen and if we have confidence in that future."@en1
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