Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-29-Speech-3-043"
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"Mr President, while the Greens fully support the efforts of the Commission to create a sustainable fisheries policy within the EU, we reject any attempt to simply transfer our problems to the developing world. For far too long the EU has sent its distant water fishing vessels to scour the oceans off Africa and other areas where they can cause immense harm to fish stocks and to local artisanal fishing communities. We have to clean up our own house without transferring our problems to those who are economically worse off than ourselves and who are desperate for any money they can get.
Commissioner Fischler has stated that the EU must work for sustainable fishing wherever EU fleets operate and we shall hold him to that goal. In relation to the over-capacity of EU fleets, I would like to ask the Commission how it feels about the announcement by the Irish Government yesterday for a EUR 56 million investment package for EU vessels? This conflicts quite strongly with what the Commission is trying to do. If the Irish Government is allowed to go ahead with this, how would it square with other Member States who could follow suit and do exactly the same? This is at complete odds with what the Commission is trying to achieve.
Finally, in relation to the whole saga regarding Spain's involvement in recent weeks in the reform of the fisheries policy – and a Spanish minister actually admitting on television that he was ordering his commissioners what do to – this goes completely against the EU's rules. This entire saga needs to be properly and thoroughly investigated because, forgive the pun, as far as I can see, the whole thing is very fishy."@en1
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