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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031023.2.4-059"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-10-23-Speech-4-0602
lpv:speaker	lp:Bordes, Cauquil and Laguiller (GUE/NGL )2
lpv:translated text	". We have abstained from the vote on this report, as we have on the two previous reports on fisheries. We are in favour of recovering the stocks of fish that are threatened with extinction. For years, however, European policy has focused on solely on performance, profit and sustainable development. As a result, the major fishing companies have overexploited stocks and plundered the spawning beds. This has brought enormous profits for shipowners and processing companies, whose cost prices have continued to fall. As fish stocks have decreased at the same pace, the authorities finally got worried and decided to reduce the size of fishing fleets. It is the small-scale fishermen who have paid the price and taxpayers too, since they have subsidised the aid so that the major shipowners continue to prosper, since the only ‘sustainable development’ taking place was that of their own profits. The measures envisaged by the European institutions or national States will consist of indecisive measures, which according to one report have been scuppered by the large shipowners with the complicity of the EU Member States, and measures whose main effect is to harm the communities that depend on fishing. We reject any measure that, on the pretext of preserving nature, destroys the livelihoods of the small-scale fishermen who survive on what they earn."@en1

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