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"en.20161212.14.1-153-500"2
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"This debate takes place just as the annual quota talks in Brussels are commencing. Whilst I campaigned for Scotland to remain in the EU, I’d be the first to acknowledge that European fisheries policy has failed – and that’s why I campaigned for the reformed CFP to have strong regional decision-making at its heart. Whilst Brexit campaigners have highlighted that leaving the EU will bring fisheries powers back to the UK, nothing has been said as to where those powers will lie. It is essential in my view that powers over Scotland’s fishing resources be held by the Scottish Parliament. Fishing contributes proportionately far more to the Scottish economy than it does to the UK as a whole – and for that reason the Scottish Parliament is more responsive to the industry’s needs than Westminster. The Scottish Parliament will never allow our fishing industry to be used as a bargaining chip in wider negotiations. All too often in the past, December quota talks have failed because the UK Government has given away too much. UK Government documents from the 1970s stated that Scotland’s fishing industry was ‘expendable’ in negotiations to join the then EEC."@en1
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