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Mr President, the fisheries sector is in crisis. The common fisheries policy has been an abject failure: the core objectives of the CFP were to save jobs and conserve fish stocks, but thousands of jobs have been destroyed and fish stocks have collapsed.
In the name of conservation, our fishermen have been forced to dump two million tonnes of prime dead fish back into the sea every year to comply with the quota scheme. In the name of conservation, our fishermen have suffered tie-ups, lay-offs, emergency closures, decommissioning and plunging incomes. We are struggling now to reform the CFP and to stop the final collapse of the industry in the North Sea and other key sectors.
It is therefore of paramount importance that fisheries policy is highlighted. The committee was alarmed that the Convention seemed to attach fisheries policy to agriculture as a mere appendage. For the hundreds of thousands of people who work in the sector throughout the EU, we are not an appendage to agriculture: we are a major sector. Please ensure that our bid for codecision-making powers in the Committee on Fisheries is endorsed. Please also ensure that we can start playing a meaningful role in the future of the industry."@en1
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