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"Mr President, I want to say that I fully support the report prepared by Mr Cunha. While I have reservations, I do not see any other way forward.
It is interesting to think that those Member States that have the great fleets today built up those fleets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Ireland, we feel thoroughly aggrieved at the size of our quotas and the capacity of our fleet. We must remember that when the other maritime nations – Britain, Spain and Holland – were building up their fleets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there was actually a law which forbade the transport of fish in Irish ships. So we arrived in this century with the same sort of boat, the little curragh, in which St Brendan sailed to America in the eighth century. That is why the fishermen I represent feel very aggrieved.
Today, the Dutch have seven times as many ships over 24 metres as Ireland, even though we have much more by way of resources in the ocean. I want to record the fact that we are not satisfied and to say that if we exploit the seas the way we should and if we conserve and manage our fisheries the way we ought, we could probably take twice as much fish from European waters as we do. We would not have any more jobs, as the capacity is already there to do it, but we would make more than double the profits we make at the moment. A sensible system of conservation and restraint for the present will guarantee the resource for generations to come. I sincerely hope that, when we have done this and despite the fact that "relative stability" has become a sacred principle here, a country like Ireland on the edge of the Atlantic with vast resources will one day enjoy a more equitable share."@en1
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