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Published Date: 30 January 2009
EUROPE'S fisheries policy is adding nearly £200 a year to the average family's food bill, it was claimed yesterday.
A report published by the Taxpayer's Alliance and Global Vision said the 25-year-old EU deal, which carves up annual fish quotas between the member states, has cost more than 97,000 UK jobs – 9,000 in fishing and 88,000 onshore in dependent industries.

As the report was unveiled, banner-waving protesters paraded around the European Parliament's London headquarters in Westminster, dumping dead fish donated by Essex fishermen and demanding the return of fisheries policy to national control.



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  • Last Updated: 30 January 2009 12:40 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: European Union
 
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Sierra Foothills Scot,

Diamond Springs 30/01/2009 02:21:12

I have read this report, which once more demonstrates the mindless destruction of fish, fishermen and fishing communities caused by the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.

I commend the protestors, although we all know nothing will come of their efforts. After all, the UK government apparently still believes the industry was/is "expendable".
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Dr. James Wilkie,

Vienna 30/01/2009 09:11:44
The TAGV figure is correct. It is based on statistics that were first published more than a decade ago by the Scotland-UN Committee. What the UK figures do not reveal is that the vast majority of the jobs lost have been in Scotland, which has suffered the full brunt of the economic and social disaster.

Attempts have been made to massage the statistics in order to conceal the extent of the havoc this orgy of incompetence, corruption and insane Euro-ideology has wreaked. With well over 1,000 Scottish offshore boats having been destroyed - over two thirds of the fleet - hundred of one-man lobster boats and others down to rowing boat size that previously were never included in the statistics have been added in order to give the impression that the situation is satisfactory. It is not, and Scotland is faced with a simple choice - either the CFP is scrapped or Scotland scraps the EU.

The EU is, after all, only one organisation among others, with a little over half of the European states as its members. I wish journalists would stop using the expressions "Europe" and "European" with reference to this single organisation. Other organisations like the Council of Europe, representing 800 million Europeans, are far more representative of the continent as a whole, and are far more worthy of the title European.
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The Tin Man,

30/01/2009 12:37:40
If the UK, or even the EU, implemented a 200 mile limit and Nowegian or Icelandic-style fish management, the fishing fleet would be decimated for 10 years. The EU fisheries club is used to put shot-term national interests before scientific fish management. Next-up, there will not be such a thing as a 'Scottish' prawn.
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Dr. James Wilkie,

Vienna 30/01/2009 14:07:33
#5: If the EU succeeds in pushing the Lisbon treaty down Irish throats in a re-run referendum this year there will certainly be no such thing as a "Scottish" prawn. That treaty gives the EU absolute control of all "marine biological resources" all the way round from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and is clearly the thin end of a wedge that will eventually comprise all marine resources, including oil, minerals, etc. This folly of grandeur gone mad makes a mockery of any Scottish marine policy out to the 200-mile limit. There could certainly be no question of Scottish EU membership under these conditions.

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Niall,

Cairnbulg Aberdeenshire 31/01/2009 09:48:28
I have to agree with Dr Wilkie here. The EU CFP is a brain dead brontosaurus blundering around causing damage wherever it goes. Where conservation means culling healthy stocks of fish in the name of conservation.Where I live the evidence of the EU's disastrous policy is plain to see.

Boarded up shops, empty engineering works, closed down small businesses which depended on Fishing. The empty coastal harbours where only a few small creel boats remain where once trawlers were moored side by side. The boarded up chandlers depots, the empty net stores, the now derelict fish smokers kilns and good hard working people reduced to living on state hand outs.

Its no good asking westminster to act because they do not care, remember "The fishing industry is expendable!" Most of the fishing industry is in Scotland and Scotland has never been of im portance in the eyes of westminster. This is why Scotland MUST become Independent and leave the EU to its path of self destruction.

'S mise le meas
Niall Ban
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Salthorse,

Room wi a view 26/05/2009 08:42:32
Niall,

A ma femily were once in the fishin, a generation on naebody is.

'Bulger shore his few juvenille crabs in the rockpools and far less to catch within 5 miles o'shore.

What was once a close responsible prood community has been reduced to have and have nots, the majority migrating to the Oil Industry or on the dole spanked oot on drugs.

I agree with your comment from the late Edward Heath - stating (1974ish) that the Scottish Fishing industry is expendable, 8,000 jobs 3 billion a year industry is hanging on by its finger nails.

The audacity of Westminster has reached tipping point, the only way forward is for Scotland to be Independent and out of the EU. Dr Wilkie is correct, the Council of Europe is perhaps a better way forward.

Saor Alba

SH

 

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