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"en.20021204.7.3-128"2
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"Madam President, the complete, total and disgraceful failure of the common fisheries policy and the consequent collapse of fish stocks means that the EU must now cast its net wider and wider to satisfy voracious Spanish demands. Not content with destroying the North Sea, Africa is now the prize.
There are now 16 third country agreements in place. Today we are discussing Angola and, according to the World Wildlife Fund, this deal will strip a vulnerable African coastal community of a precious asset. When each deal is debated, my colleague, Mr Nigel Farage, has urged you to open your eyes to the environmental destruction and, more seriously, to the deaths of many hundreds of black African fishermen which European Union boats are causing every year.
Exhaustive documentary evidence from Mauritania and Senegal confirms the scale of this tragedy. The contempt with which our pleadings have met leads me to think that most of the rest of you must inhabit a different planet. There is a better way. Ten years ago, Namibia threw out the Spanish boats and took control over her 200-mile territorial waters. 14 000 people now work in an industry worth USD 350 million a year. Namibia should be our model if we really want to help the third world. Let us stop exploiting these poor countries and encourage them to modernise their industries. Let us recognise that the only fishery management schemes that work around the world are the ones with national control."@en1
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