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"Mr President, Commissioner, as you know full well, I have always taken the view that the common fisheries policy was bad for the fish and bad for the fishermen. You have been the first to recognise that a lot of mistakes have been made in the past, and the trouble is that it is very difficult to overcome some of these mistakes.
My constituency, the East of England, used to have a large and vibrant fishing industry. Sadly, this is no longer the case. Earlier today, I was talking to a fisherman in my region who has been involved in fishing for some thirty years and now has one of the last seven boats in what was the great fishing port of Lowestoft. His boat is under 12 metres; in fact, 97% of the UK fishing fleet is in this category, but they have an allocation of only 4% of the total allowable catch.
Of course these fishermen do not want to see stocks decimated or wasted – they want to make a decent living. To be able to do this, they need flexibility and a better quota. Like most of our citizens, they are outraged by the discard policy. My local fisherman has to throw away more than he is allowed to land. I know you want to put a stop to discards, but we cannot wait until after 2016. There will not be any fishermen left by then."@en1
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