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dcterms:Date	"2012-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Baltic salmon stock and the fisheries exploiting that stock - Conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms - Removal of fins of sharks on board vessels - Small-scale and artisanal fisheries and CFP reform - External dimension of the common fisheries policy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121121.31.3-531-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-21-Speech-3-532-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Chris Davies2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wonder who it was who first stood over a shark on the deck of their vessel and stuck a knife deep into it and hacked off its fin, cutting deeply into it, and then told his colleagues to help him throw it overboard back into the sea, where it could swim, sink and starve or just bleed to death. Fishing is an inherently cruel activity I suppose but, even by its standards, shark finning is an unpleasant practice. We thought we had dealt with the problem of shark finning some years ago, but of course we left loopholes, and now the Commission has come back and is closing those loopholes, and I hope we will end it once and for all. But that should be seen as a first step, because we know from the figures that shark species across the planet have experienced massive declines in the last few years. This is a creature that has been on the planet for hundreds of millions of years – longer than mankind. I would be very sorry if we saw the elimination of entire species during the course of our own lifetimes. I will just turn to the issue of small-scale fisheries. We know that small-scale fisheries, by and large, generally employ more people in the fishing sector as a whole than the large-scale fishing that generates so much income. We also know that, by and large, it causes the least environmental damage. Yet on numerous occasions I hear people in my own country and elsewhere saying that it is all the fault of Brussels, and that we should be helping small-scale fishermen, giving them a bigger share of the catch and not penalising them. They ask why we are being so bad and so cruel to the small-scale fisherman. Yet, of course, it is not Brussels, and it is not the Commission. The Commission – the European Union – shares out the fishing opportunities to Member States. It is the Member States that decide whether the big vessels or the small vessels get it. Maybe some of the critics should spend less time criticising Brussels and more time criticising their own national capitals."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; ENVI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Liberal Democrats Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Chris Davies,"1 "on behalf of the ALDE Group."1
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