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"Commissioner, please allow me to be a little forward. Do you know where Barbate is, or Isla Cristina? Do you know where Ayamonte, AlmerÃa or Motril are? Do you know anything about Andalusia other than the bitterness of its green olives?
Without wanting to be harsh, Commissioner, you have set a new record in terms of proposals to destroy employment which will be difficult to break.
Have you or anyone from your team considered that your proposals for reforming the CFP only add to the effect of the failure of the disastrous negotiation with Morocco to renew a traditional fisheries agreement that would prevent the destruction of thousands of small-scale fishing jobs?
Commissioner, you globalised fishing in the south of Europe, and ensured that the place occupied by a small-scale fleet, under an agreement between Morocco and the European Union, which respected biological rest periods and maintained very close control of nets and meshes, should now be taken in these fishing grounds by a fleet which does not respect rest periods, and whose nets are not controlled at all. A proportion of their catches is not landed and they do not generate local employment, as the Community fleet did.
Commissioner, you have presented a proposed CFP which perfectly quantifies the scrappings and the job losses, but leaves it completely unclear what the solutions to alleviating the social and economic problems caused by your proposal are to be. Do you know where the money we need is going to come from? The intention is that we now incorporate unemployed fishermen into the tourism sector. More hotels, more golf courses, Commissioner? Is this what you call sustainable development? Is this what diversifying the economies of the regions means? Do you realise that when you prohibit modernisation you also prohibit the sustainability of fishing, a form of fishing that is more respectful of the environment, of those fishing grounds that fishermen have most interest in respecting?
Through your proposals you are destroying the only fleet that generates employment and also respects the environment; the small-scale fleet. They also prohibit the creation of mixed undertakings, the only solution which allowed us to resolve the problems resulting from cases such as Morocco. Although we are going to make the scrap merchants richer, I suppose!
Finally, your proposal will not only affect the traditional employment and culture of peoples you do not know, but it will also considerably increase the cost to consumers of one of the essential ingredients of the Mediterranean diet, a healthy and balanced diet, without cholesterol, which as a result of your proposals we will lose in favour of the junk food which is so popular in the North of Europe."@en1
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