EC plans awarding vessels fishing quotas for 15 years; critics say it ‘privatizes oceans’

Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 06:24 UTC

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The European Commission is planning to reform the EU fishing industry by giving vessels quota shares guaranteed for periods of at least 15 years. The commission will issue a proposal on reforming the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP, in July, to take effect in 2013. Read full article

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GeoffWard
The name of the game is protecting the sustainability of the resource (fish species), not protecting the jobs of fisheries ministers and their voters.

With sustained stocks the jobs remain and are stabilised around the annual fluctuations of the recruitment class size for each species.

The seas' bounty is, in practice, KILLED OFF BY POLITICIANS.

If, instead of blind-siding the fisheries scientists

- the REAL EXPERTS at defining the Maximum Sustainable Yield for each species for each year at defined levels of exploitation -

the ministers and politicians accepted the PRIMACY OF THE RESOURCE,

we would have all species (including humans) living sustainably and providing the maximum yields (and profits) for the fishing communities.

Fisheries activity, micro-managed by politicians, is peversely self-destructive.
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