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richard		#1 Posted : 06 February 2013 21:41:39(UTC)
Rank: Administration Groups: Registered, Administrators Joined: 16/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 2,935 Location: Bradford Thanks: 92 times Was thanked: 293 time(s) in 245 post(s)		The European Parliament yesterday voted for its "common position" on the European Commission's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform proposals, adopting an agreed text by 502 votes to 137. This is a terribly boring way of putting something that has the BBC proclaiming: "Euro MPs back large-scale fishing reform to save stocks", which may be (almost literally) correct, but not technically so. This is the first of the first. It is the first time MEPs have been allowed to vote on the CFP, after it was converted to "co-decision" (now known as the ordinary legislative procedure) by the Lisbon Treaty. With that, approval become a joint responsibility of the European Parliament and the Council. View full article here
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vincent		#2 Posted : 07 February 2013 08:14:56(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 17/07/2012(UTC) Posts: 905 Location: Sunderland Thanks: 76 times Was thanked: 31 time(s) in 28 post(s)		Quote: The phasing in of MSY depends on collecting more scientific data about the rate at which different marine species reproduce. Well lets hope that science is better than the AGW science otherwise, added to the usual dogs dinner the EU makes of everything it does,it will ensure our fishing stocks are wiped out for good.. Edited by user 07 February 2013 08:15:44(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified


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F U Fed Up		#3 Posted : 07 February 2013 10:16:14(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 10/08/2012(UTC) Posts: 262 Was thanked: 21 time(s) in 19 post(s)		Quote: In our researches, however, I interviewed senior Commission officials responsible for fisheries policy. Quite candidly – albeit in private – they admitted that their centralised system simply does not have the legislative and administrative capability to devise tailored regimes for each fishery, and then to monitor and regulate them. That paragraph says all you need to know, as to why we must get out.


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richard		#4 Posted : 07 February 2013 12:59:40(UTC)
Rank: Administration Groups: Registered, Administrators Joined: 16/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 2,935 Location: Bradford Thanks: 92 times Was thanked: 293 time(s) in 245 post(s)		Originally Posted by: vincent Quote: The phasing in of MSY depends on collecting more scientific data about the rate at which different marine species reproduce. Well lets hope that science is better than the AGW science otherwise, added to the usual dogs dinner the EU makes of everything it does,it will ensure our fishing stocks are wiped out for good.. "Wiped out" is not really the issue. More problematical is that an industry with the potential to generate £3-4 billion is only producing about £0.5bn, while the thousands of jobs that should be do not exist.
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Shakassoc		#5 Posted : 07 February 2013 15:02:21(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 18/07/2012(UTC) Posts: 75 Thanks: 6 times Was thanked: 3 time(s) in 3 post(s)		Originally Posted by: richard In fact, it was no such thing. Instead of being managed by the Council, where the ignorance about effective fisheries management was confined to a small group of Commission and Council officials, with national ministers let in to play once a year, the net effect of the changes is to give more players a part in setting a fundamentally unsound policy. View full article here 'Net effect'. Very good. Ha-ha.


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