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dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Biodiversity2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.11.2-274"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-2752
lpv:speaker	lp:Albert Jan Maat2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-02-21--2002-12-17)3 vice-chair; AGRI (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I should first of all like to say that I am not speaking on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, but on behalf of the Committee on Fisheries, where I was shadow rapporteur. I should like to thank the rapporteur for her clarity of vision. She spoke about Brazil, but I should like to start close to home in discussing biodiversity. At present in the fishing industry we are depleting glass eel stocks from our coastlines, with the result that the eel itself hardly occurs in its natural habitat. This seems to me to be an issue for the Commission and our Environmental Commissioner to look into further and to draft a policy accordingly. The Fishery Committee’s second point of concern pertains to the development of genetic engineering in fish farming. Canada and the United States currently have a system which they can set in motion as soon as they receive the green light. It seems important to me for the Commission to verify to what extent we can stop this development in Europe, or at least are able to hold a reasonable political debate on the subject before we resort to such technology in fish farming. The third point concerns aquaculture and the implications on the maritime environment. We need more research on that score too, particularly to find more closed systems. The fourth point to which the Fisheries Committee would like to draw your attention is the implications of the dissonance which sometimes exists between bird and fish stocks. Particularly with regard to cormorants, there are serious problems in Europe. Fifthly, the Fisheries Committee wants research to be carried out into the connection between climate change and fish stocks. What is the connection? Insufficient research has been carried out in that area and we will very much welcome the Commission’s action plans particularly on that score. The sixth point concerns policy we are currently adopting to close areas in order to protect certain fish species. It is unclear whether this has truly positive effects on fish stocks or not. More research by the Commission in the framework of biodiversity would be appreciated in that area too. Allow me to conclude by at least inviting the Environment Commissioner, Mrs Wallström, to come and exchange ideas with the Fisheries Committee on these specific points, so as to ascertain to what extent she can make a contribution to the Green Paper on fishery, also in terms of biodiversity. We would welcome such an initiative from the Commissioner with open arms."@en1

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