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"We are highly critical of the EU’s destructive fisheries agreements with third countries and thus regret the fact that the EU is choosing to conclude fisheries agreements with new countries.
A series of reports has shed light on the harmful consequences of such agreements for the coastal populations of the countries that conclude the agreements. The agreements lead to over-exploitation of fishing waters, which hits the local populations. Both the Commission and the overwhelming majority of the European Parliament choose, however, consistently to close their eyes to this criticism. According to one of Parliament’s opinions, the fishing agreement at issue may, moreover, have harmful environmental consequences.
At the same time as the EU recommends increased aid efforts, people’s taxes are used to finance fisheries agreements that militate against development. This is neither a consistent nor credible policy.
We believe that the fisheries agreements should be phased out with a view to their eventually being cancelled. Those EU Member States whose vessels operate in third countries’ waters should be liable for the costs of the agreements. Those same Member States should then decide independently whether they are to fund this expenditure by, in turn, levying charges in relation to their own particular fishing vessels."@en1
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