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"Mr President, I voted in favour of this agreement. The fact that it was earlier rejected by the Committee on Fisheries only reflects the influence of the interests of European big fishing here, and the placing of those interests above the environment and above the interest of small fishermen from Mauritania and the 36% of the Mauritanian workforce employed in the fisheries sector.
It is the actions of massive European-owned trawlers, together with others, in Mauritanian waters which have made fishing in that region increasingly unsustainable. For example, the Irish-owned
the largest trawler in the world, could collect in one day what it would take a whole year for 7 000 Mauritanian fishermen to catch. It was correctly known by them as the ship from hell, and it has since been thrown out of Mauritanian waters. As a result of that kind of fishing, according to the president of one of the small fishing groups, it now takes 15 days to bring in a profitable catch, where it previously took 12 hours.
This agreement is insufficient but it is a step in the right direction of sustainable fishing."@en1
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