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"en.20121025.36.4-578-000"2
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"Madam President, today I had the honour of witnessing the signature of my report by the President of Parliament and the President-in-Office of the Council, when they formally entered into EU legislation the Regulation on certain measures in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing.
This regulation now gives Commissioner Damanaki the necessary tools to introduce hard-hitting sanctions against countries engaged in unsustainable fishing practices – countries such as Iceland and the Faroe Islands in the case of mackerel, a straddling stock in the North East Atlantic. This fishery was expected to be worth in excess of EUR 1 billion in 2010, before the onset of overfishing by these islands. In 2008, both islands were fishing very modest amounts of mackerel. This, of course, is in sharp contrast to the landings in 2011, which reached up to 150 000 tonnes in both cases – a totally unsustainable figure. This unsustainable increase in landings was at first hidden to a degree, and the price did not drop significantly because of the unfortunate situation in Japan.
In conclusion, let me say that the Commissioner, now that she has the tools, must take urgent action and implement the relevant provision contained in the Regulation, which had almost unanimous support in this House, bearing in mind that talks to resolve the dispute once again broke down without agreement in London this week."@en1
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