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"Mr President, for 40 years we waited for the Commission to grace us with some amendments to the common fisheries policy, in which time the EU has emaciated the British fleet to half its size, ruined local jobs and coastal towns and destroyed our fish stocks. So while I am glad that the obscene practice of discards is being addressed, it cannot be denied that the EU has a terrible record in the fishing industry.
This reform package does not change the fact that no matter who a person votes for, no matter which party is in power, no matter how bad the policy, nothing can be done in the UK to change it. The British people and Parliament and Her Majesty the Queen will also be alarmed to discover that Amendment 63 would create a new power, without a word of objection by Her Majesty’s Government or the Tories. That power is sovereignty over the sea bed as opposed to merely controlling the fish in the water above it.
Any new power must mean a UK referendum. Therefore, if this amendment is carried it must be the subject of a UK referendum under Mr Cameron’s referendum lock. UKIP has tabled amendments calling for the repatriation of fishing policy and the reintroduction of the 200 mile limit for fishing in accordance with UN law. We have not heard what powers Mr Cameron wants back. Does he want to repatriate fishing or is he happy to keep it in the hands of Brussels bureaucrats or, worse, extend the powers of the EU over the UK sea bed 12 nautical miles from our coast without a referendum?"@en1
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