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INDUSTRY leaders and fishing communities are gearing up to campaign against proposed changes to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which could throw open Scotland's lucrative fishing grounds to foreign trawler fleets.

Until now foreign fleets, including Spanish trawlers, have been kept out of Scottish waters by access rights, where catches are allocated on the basis of historical landings under the rule of so called "relative stability".

 

But the disclosure that the country's fishing grounds could be available to Spanish and other foreign trawlers under proposed changes to the CFP, put forward by Maria Damanaki, the European Fisheries Commissioner, has prompted fears that Scottish fishermen could be priced out of the market.

 

Damanaki has unveiled plans that opponents claim could see Scottish fish quotas for key species such as haddock, cod and langoustines being sold to the highest bidder anywhere in Europe.

 

Richard Lochhead, Scotland's Fisheries Minister, has warned that the proposed changes represent a "huge threat" to Scotland's fishing fleets. He told Scotland on Sunday: "It's concerning that the commission's proposals could allow our historic fishing rights to be sold off. This could see them end up in the hands of faceless multi-national companies, which would be bad news for Scots fishermen who would be priced out of the market.

 

"I believe national governments should continue to decide on the quota rights of their fishermen and we should not hand control to Brussels. We simply cannot allow fishermen to sell their quota to other countries, to the detriment of future generations."

 

Eilidh Whiteford, the SNP's Westminster fisheries spokeswoman, has also voiced her concerns. The MP for Banff and Buchan, home to the white fish ports of Peterhead and Fraserburgh, said: "Selling quota to Europe's highest bidders will erode Scotland's historic rights which in turn could spell doom for our fragile fishing communities."

 

Damanaki is calling for a system of "transferable fishing concessions" offering a one-size-fits-all system across the EU to cut the capacity of the EU fleet.

 

The plan calls for an expansion in the international trading of fish quotas - stating "a member state may authorise the transfer of transferable fishing concessions to and from another member state.

scotsman.com

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Chi dorme non piglia pesci

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Much the same as the uk's quota, that moved from the smaller chaps upto the fewer big boys, so there is a complaint that their quota might shift further if the monies right. It's all in the hands of the speculaters and quota traders. So. Whats the problem, there hasn't been one previously.

 

Haven't heard anything that the eu are going to take quota that is already owned. In any event, thought there is going to be a move away from quota to fix the discard issue. what is the problem.

 

bun fight continues.......................

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Do like this where she comes up with a plan. Init, she mentions reference to cold storage being set up ( our money of course) to collect the tailings that ain't sold. Much like re-producing the butter mountain and the wine lake that the eu was infamous for........... however the brilliant part of her plan is that she'll give it away to the needy, classic, how to create some more eu taxpayer non-jobs.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsi...000/9536832.stm

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Below was one of Leons quotes from last week. So someone's right and someone's wrong, is the topic a non story? According to Leon, or is it all part of the continuing bun fight that will last for years, in the meantime fish stocks...........................?

 

This appears to be exactly how they dealt with the apparent demise of the common eel, that took more than a decade of bunning, yet........... that one continues...............

 

 

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Tradable concessions have been introduced in many countries and proved effective in tackling overcapacity: for instance in Denmark the demersal fleet was slimmed down by 30% in 4 years and the pelagic one by 50%. Norway, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand also show success with this approach.

 

We propose tradability at national level only, and we propose safeguards to protect legitimate public policy concerns like preventing too many fisheries interests to be concentrated in the hands of a few. And the small-scale fleet will be exempt, to prevent it from being absorbed by bigger operators.

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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There's no way policy can work

 

THE new Common Fisheries Policy has been announced and has been heavily criticised.

 

The Commission say they will phase out discards, the practice of throwing overboard any fish caught above EU quotas, but do not say how. Instead it will be up to member states to make this happen, suggesting the EU has no solution to the very problem the Common Fisheries Policy has created.

 

Equally, they don't state that there should be any penalty for discards, making it unclear how the practice will be prevented, meaning fishermen may actually profit from fish they were not supposed to catch.

 

The Commissioner has admitted the one size fits all policy making of the CFP was wrong, and is handing back a degree of competence to member states, but it is clearly a case of passing the buck when they themselves have run out of ideas. The commission will continue to decide how much fish can be caught, but leave it up to Member States to decide how to enforce it.

 

There are proposals to allow transferable quotas, meaning large vessels can trade remaining catching rights with other vessels. This will encourage deals to be made, favouring large companies, and squeeze out smaller businesses.

 

The fact that the commission have drawn up what critics are calling a vague and incomplete policy reinforces my belief that there should be no common fisheries policy at all. It echoes the mess they have made of a single currency, where it would seem they also no longer know what they are doing. I strongly believe it is time that the UK called for national waters to be controlled and fished by the UK only.

 

John Bufton

 

Ukip MEP for Wales

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/story-12...tail/story.html

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Chi dorme non piglia pesci

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The big difference with quota now will be, if you hold quota (fishermen or not fishermen) then you are in for a wind fall. The market place for your product has just grown considerable. The Spanish have been building ships for years away from there traditional line more for ships to work the Atlantic and North Sea areas. So they certainly have the capacity to make a massive difference on fishing concentration in these waters. What they haven’t had is the opportunity to get hold of quota. All change and the quota goes to the highest bidder. Small vessels and the not so small haven’t got a chance of competing with country’s that have massive subsidies and therefore can pay more for quota.

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