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Verbatim report of proceedings
Tuesday, 22 October 2013 - Strasbourg Revised edition

European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (debate)
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  Kriton Arsenis (S&D). - Mr President, when we started the Fisheries Fund in the European Union, the problem was fishing capacity and the modernisation of our fleet, so we gave subsidies to scarce resources. Why was that? We needed more ships. The years passed and we were very successful in modernising and increasing our fleet, and now we have over-capacity. For many decades now we have been overfishing. The scarce resource now is fish. This is where we need to give subsidies.

If you ask fisherman what the problem is, their problem is that they cannot catch enough fish because there are not enough fish around. This is what a fisherman needs in order to have a sustainable, secure future and to have income. We need funds that result in more fish in the seas, not more boats. Our fishermen do not sell boats, they sell fish; this is what they need.

I support data collection funds for data collection, and I support preservation measures and increasing gear selectivity – but not more boats.

 
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