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"Mr President, the Commission should note that the title of this item is ‘sustainable exploitation of sea bass’. The operative word you are using is ‘exploitation’. That is all you are interested in.
Eleven years ago, the British Government banned pair trawling for bass. Our then Fisheries Minister asked the French Government to do likewise. They refused. We went to the Commission to ask for a ban. The Commission refused. So our fishermen halted pair trawling – and the French, with the connivance of the European Union, simply took our fish from our waters, and now you have the nerve to punish our fishermen and sea anglers for your own crimes.
The common fisheries policy, based as it is on outright naked theft of natural resources by giant businesses under the protection of the EU, is an unmitigated economic, ecological and environmental catastrophe. All of you sitting here – although there are not many this morning because perhaps you are just busy signing on – in this Chamber spouting smug platitudes about caring for the ecosystem, looking after the impoverished of our world and acting as good stewards of the planet, I have news for you: you are being used by this giant corporatist scam and you are blinding yourselves to the truth. In the words of Johnny Rotten, ever get the feeling you have been had?
The biomass of our bass population has dropped by 80% and you are going to bring in vindictive, ill-thought-out, unenforceable legislation. British sea anglers have been calling for years to save the bass and you have done nothing because you are owned, lock stock and barrel, by vested interests.
I call on the UK Government today to leave the callous, corrupting, catastrophic common fisheries policy, restore a proper 12-mile limit and institute a 200-mile exclusive economic zone, as guaranteed by the European Law of the Sea. The sooner the common fisheries policy is gone, the better."@en1
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