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"Mr President, we are debating a useful management tool that should be implemented as effectively as possible. I would like to address some critical aspects of the compromise.
First, creating sanctuaries and identifying spawning grounds. Researchers and scientific data confirm that creating sanctuaries in EU areas would damage only the European fishing industry while encouraging that of other countries; as we have heard, we are eight against at least 22. Sanctuaries are pointless for fish species that are highly migratory. Proper, rational and sustainable fishing management is surely much, much more sensible.
Furthermore, it has long been known that the tuna’s main spawning grounds are in the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Mexico, both of which contain very few areas where it does not reproduce on account of oceanographic conditions unfavourable to the tuna’s reproductive biology. As recent research has shown, even the length of the reproductive period can vary significantly.
As regards fixed tuna traps, I favour reviving a proposal put forward at the symposium of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Tangier in February 2011; this is an activity that has been practised for nearly 2 600 years. Therefore, why not grant the existing traditional fixed tuna traps UNESCO world heritage status?"@en1
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