Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-23-Speech-4-205"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-10-23"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20031023.10.4-205"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-10-23-Speech-4-2062
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexander de Roo2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Overfishing in European waters has led to scientists now proposing a total ban on cod fishing and strict limits for other species of fish such as plaice. Up to now, scientists’ warnings have fallen on deaf ears at the December annual meetings of the 15 Fisheries Ministers. As a result, we are threatened with the same situation as happened ten years ago off the coast of Canada (Newfoundland). Those waters were fished down to the very last cod, and, even ten years later, there are still no cod to be found. The fishing communities in eastern Canada did not survive that. The EU has been trying for years to reduce the fleet capacity of European fishermen. That reduction has taken place in practice, however. Europe’s overfishing problems are being shifted on to the rest of the world in that increasing numbers of European fishermen are depleting fish stocks in the waters of other continents. It all began in Ireland a couple of years ago, when a supertrawler, the had to be decommissioned. Instead, this supertrawler is now sailing under the Panamanian flag for exactly the same Irish firm in the waters of the Developing World. There are now as many as three supertrawlers that have not been decommissioned by the Netherlands; these vessels are now depleting fish stocks in the waters off the West African coast, under the Dutch flag. Thousands of small-scale African fishermen are missing out, and shortly yields off the West African coast will also decrease. The response of the Dutch Government will then probably be to send these supertrawlers even further away. Scientists’ warnings of worldwide overfishing are not being taken seriously: not by the Dutch Government and not by the European Commission. A year ago, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (September 2002), the Dutch and European authorities hypocritically signed declarations that there must be an end to worldwide overfishing by 2010, but in reality the Dutch and European authorities are shifting the problems caused by overfishing in European waters on to the countries of the Developing World. Fishing the world’s oceans dry with our heads in the sand: I can think of no other way of summing it up."@en1
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