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"Mr President, for 11 years in this House, I have been protesting about the common fisheries policy’s negative impacts on my home country: under international law, the United Kingdom had 65% of the fish stocks in North Sea waters covered by the CFP but we were allocated 25% by volume or 15% by value under the quota system.
That argument is becoming academic because the fish have effectively disappeared. Even in the time that I have been in this House, there has been a calamitous decline in what ought to have been a renewable resource. In other countries which found a way to incentivise ownership, to give the fishermen a reason to treat the seas as a renewable harvest, they managed to sustain their fish levels: in Iceland, in Norway, in New Zealand, in the Falkland Islands. But in Europe, we had the tragedy of ‘the commons’, where we said it was a common resource to which all vessels had equal access.
You cannot persuade a skipper to tie up his boat when he knows that the waters are being plundered by someone else. As I said, the argument is now effectively academic. It is over. Our boats are grounded. Our fishing ports are sterile. Our oceans are empty."@en1
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