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"en.20020529.5.3-044"2
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"Mr President, the proposal that Commissioner Fischler has just made amounts to a real declaration of war on the fisheries sector, with particularly serious implications for countries with poorer and older fleets, such as Portugal. Environmental protection is being used as an excuse for a proposal to dramatically cut fishing effort, with measures designed to reduce the level of catches and to reward the decommissioning of fishing vessels, without taking proper account of the specific circumstances and needs of each country. It is being overlooked, for example, that Portugal is the Member State that has already far exceeded the objectives for reducing fishing effort, while maintaining an ageing fleet – around 40% of its vessels are over 25 years old – and which has the lowest average yield in the European Union.
Nevertheless, what the Commission is promising is more incentives for decommissioning fishing vessels, with 287 in Portugal or a reduction of around 12 thousand tonnes in gross tonnage, whereas what Portugal needed was to increase support for modernising its fleet with a view to supplying a population which is the biggest per capita consumer of fish in the European Union, which also makes Portugal a very attractive market for multinationals. But this is not in the interest of Portugal's population or of workers in the strategic fisheries sector, which is now under such enormous threat. We are therefore rejecting the proposal and proposing that there should be a wholesale review of it."@en1
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