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"en.20100617.4.4-050"2
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"I welcome the subject of this timely report, and warmly congratulate the rapporteur on carrying out such a comprehensive study. Aquaculture must be taken up as a European priority, for the following reasons.
First, the majority of fish stocks are overexploited and aquaculture can play a significant part in overcoming shortages of fish on the European market.
Second, at global level the agri-food industry has grown 7.6% in recent decades, while in Europe it has grown only 0.5%.
Third, the European Union imports two thirds of what it consumes, but its aquacultural production represents only 2% of world production.
Fourth, aquaculture represents a business worth more than EUR 3.5 million, employing more than 65 000 people.
It is therefore important to re-launch aquaculture in Europe, correcting the errors of the past. This makes it necessary to invest more in technological research and development, in better land use planning of coastal areas and river basins, in species of greater economic interest and high nutritional value, and in production systems with lower environmental impact, in particular off-shore systems.
It is important to rethink the future of aquaculture when the reform of the common fisheries policy is being debated, increasing support for it and committing to the specific training of professionals and making producers aware of the need for a policy of quality and higher production standards."@en1
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