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"Mr President, I am surprised by Commissioner Borg’s statement that legislation that is recent cannot be modified. I believe that legislation that is not good must be updated.
That is precisely what the 2005 Report of the ICCAT says about ratios for sharks. According to that report, the ratio applied to Prionacea glauca is wrong. Furthermore, the scientists of the ICCAT argue that it should be corrected. There are two reasons for this: the first is that data on landings based on an incorrect coefficient may lead them to make the wrong estimates; and, secondly, that the inconsistency in the ratio hinders the work of controlling the fleet, since, because it is impossible to comply with the rule, the control makes no sense.
Commissioner, this is demonstrated in the report that you have sent to this Parliament.
Commissioner, Mr President, I wish to ask that we update and correct the legislation once and for all, because otherwise we are creating a serious lack of confidence in the sector as a result of having rules with which, as I say, it is impossible to comply.
I would also like one of the people who have spoken here, claiming that there are scientific reports, to tell me of at least one, supported by the international scientific community, that contradicts what the ICCAT said at the last plenary meeting of the Regional Fisheries Organisation that regulates all of these very species.
I would ask that we act rationally, that we do things properly, that the coefficients be reviewed and that we choose those that can be fulfilled by the fleet. I must also say that the problem of over-fishing will not be resolved by means of ratios. It will be resolved by means of quotas for sharks."@en1
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