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October 07, 2004
More flexibility on North Sea fishing?
I don’t really understand the fishing question. It seem that there are three points of view. The first is that fish stocks are so low that fishing must be curtailed, the second that fish stocks are not so low so they don’t have to be curtailed (or not so much), and the third is that the fish have gone north because of climate change, the implications of which are not clear to me.
At any rate, there was some good news today with the appointment of the Maltese, Joe Borg, as Europe’s new fisheries commissioner. He indicated greater flexibility on the issue in the future. Scottish fishermen will be able to take part in a new North Sea Regional Advisory Council that will have a voice in policy making.
The irony of Malta, with a population of less than Edinburgh, having a European commissioner with power over one of Scotland’s vital interests, was not lost on Mike Weir MP of the SNP.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3719032.stm
www.snp.org/index_hires.php?pageName=news/newsdetail.php?newsID=2484
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3694390.stm
europa.eu.int/comm/fisheries/policy_en.htm
Posted by Simon Holledge at October 7, 2004 12:08 AM