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"Mr President, I love the way we talk about illegal and unregulated fishing. I have noticed in the fourteen years that I have been in this Chamber that ‘illegal’ and ‘unregulated’, in the minds of the Eurocrats, are virtually synonymous concepts. Again and again you find yourself saying, why do we need a new law on so-and-so? Why do we need a new European policy in this area? And the answer comes back: because there isn’t one! Because the system is currently unregulated!
The idea that that is the natural state of affairs – that if there is not a problem, you do not need to fix it – is alien to the thinking of this Chamber. The fisheries policy which we are talking about is a very good demonstration of that precept. If you look at successful sustainability in the Falkland Islands, in Iceland, in Norway, in New Zealand, they are based on the principle of private ownership. The more laws and the more quotas and the more intrusive regulation we have had in North Sea waters, the more we have eliminated the fish stocks and left empty and sterile the oceans that once contained a great renewable resource."@en1
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