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"Mr President, first of all let me congratulate Ulrike Rodust for her fortitude and all her hard work on this reform package.
Every speaker has mentioned the need to end discards. Of course, we support that absolutely, but we must not forget, as Diane Dodds told us, that it was the Commission who introduced the plethora of regulations that forced fishermen to discard fish. That is why an important part of this reform is regionalisation, devolving day-to-day management back to the Member States. I am so glad that Maria Damanaki, since she came here, has recognised that micro-management from the centre has failed.
So I welcome moves towards fishing up to MSY levels and I welcome the introduction of regionalisation and the ending of discards, but there are still some missing links. We need more, and better, science on all of our fish stocks. We need to ask ourselves why, after years of cod recovery plans in the North Sea, cod stocks are still not significantly improving. We need to look at the impact of climate change, and indeed the impact of sea mammal predation on fish stocks. That seems to me to be the missing link in all the Commission’s work.
I am glad that in Simon Coveney we have a Minister who is now willing to tackle the interinstitutional dispute and get the multiannual plans back on track."@en1
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