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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, following the first plan to recover cod stocks, the Commission decided to propose a new initiative, this time on Northern hake. There is a further initiative in the pipeline covering Southern hake. While the sustainable management of fish stocks clearly justifies the conservation of species deemed under threat, measures aimed at limiting fishing must be properly based on accurate and up-to-date scientific opinions, and must take on board the first-hand observations of fishermen.
The deficiencies in scientific research are well known. Parliament has had the opportunity this week to express its opinion on the matter by means of the Lage report. In this context, the Souchet report is excellent, drawing attention to the need to keep data up-to-date, based on information provided by international bodies in the fisheries sector. These limitations have had a devastating socio-economic impact on sea professionals, restricting already limited fishing activity still further. The figures presented by the Commission for limiting the hake catch are such that if they were implemented they would be socially devastating, economically untenable and commercially unmanageable.
It appears obvious to state that socio-economic impact should be assessed prior to presenting any recovery plan. This, however, did not occur in this case. Such measures are therefore only acceptable if strictly commensurate with the aims of sustainable exploitation of stocks and if their economic impact is taken into account. Great variations in total allowable catches (TACs) may in some cases lead to companies converting fishing activity from one species to another, thereby indirectly causing imbalances. On various occasions, Parliament has drawn the Commission’s attention to the excessive inflexibility of the recovery plans. Consequently, a multiannual, flexible and gradual approach would certainly be more suitable, in that it would lead to fishing effort perfectly suited to the state of stocks, which will not be achieved by implementing inflexible plans, with irreversible and socially devastating consequences."@en1
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