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"en.20130205.3.2-060-000"2
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"Mr President, we are only too aware of the failings of the current common fisheries policy. The continued dominance of issues including over-fishing, discarding and depletion of stocks, demonstrate that the EU’s fisheries management has to date proved ineffective. In the light of this, I propose that the Commission go beyond making the legislative changes proposed in this report and ultimately fully repatriate fishing policy back to the Member States.
In the UK we have seen what was once a healthy and buoyant fishing industry more than halved by the EU’s common fisheries policy. Fishing fleets have been destroyed, fishing ports left derelict and our coastal waters diminished to little more that a bit part of EU common waters.
More than this, the UK provides the EU with 70% of its fishing but we are allowed only 13% by value of the quota species catch. This means that we are giving away to EU interests about GBP 2 billion a year in fish plus the value-added cost of boat building and repair, fish processing employment and ancillary services; in total about GBP 5 billion."@en1
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