Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-20-Speech-4-036"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Multiannual guidance programmes for the fishing fleets (1997)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000120.3.4-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-20-Speech-4-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Nigel Farage2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, my party's policy is to oppose the common fisheries policy on the basis that fisheries should be managed solely by individual Member States. It follows, therefore, that I should oppose the multiannual guidance programme or "Magpie" as we call it in the UK, that familiar black and white bird that is so good at indiscriminately killing juveniles and also is a well known thief – which is very much the UK fishing industry's view of the common fisheries policy. But even if I was not opposed to it on general grounds, I would oppose the Cunha report on the grounds of its specific contents. My principal reason for doing so stems from the very words of the report such as paragraph (a) on page 4 which points out "an appropriate resource conservation policy is an essential requirement in order to guarantee the future of a profitable and competitive Community fisheries sector". Stressing the word "appropriate", my problem is that "Magpie" is not an appropriate resource conservation policy. From a UK perspective, the central flaw is that we have had to accept a large number of foreign trawlers into our waters over which we have no direct control. For us it is not a question of too many boats chasing too few fish, as the Commission would have us believe; for us it is too many EU boats chasing too few fish. A more fundamental flaw is the quota system. The most recent estimates are that 3.7 million tonnes of fish are thrown back dead every year. This is a true environmental disaster. We have to attack the quota system. It has been totally ineffective at controlling the fisheries resource in any way at all. I will be against this Cunha report because it is creating yet more sanctions. It is making criminals of yet more fishermen."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3,3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2000-02-02)3,3 unknown; UK Independence Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Farage (EDD )."1

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