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21/01/2004
UUP MEP calls for regional fisheries councils
Ulster Unionist MEP, Jim Nicholson, has called on the European Parliament Fisheries Committee to give priority to implementing the proposed Regional Advisory Councils (RAC’s).
Mr Nicholson said that the RAC’s should be implemented equally throughout the EU and asked the President in Office to defend the interests of fishermen and ensure that the RAC’s had sufficient powers.
Speaking in the EU’s Fisheries Committee, Mr Nicholson said: “Unless the fishermen have a degree of input and some ownership of the RAC’s they will not be effective or workable. National or Regional governments must implement them in the real spirit of which they were conceived, despite the lack of enthusiasm for them shown by the European Commission. I ask you to defend fisherman’s interests and ensure that the RAC’s have teeth.”
Mr Nicholson also asked for a special scientific investigation to determine what the six-week closure of the ‘Irish Box’ during spawning season has achieved.
He said Northern Ireland's fisherman had co-operated, over a number of years, with the six-week closure of fishing grounds during the spawning season to allow for cod recovery. But he said that a special scientific investigation should be conducted to determine the effect the closure.
(KMcA)
Mr Nicholson said that the RAC’s should be implemented equally throughout the EU and asked the President in Office to defend the interests of fishermen and ensure that the RAC’s had sufficient powers.
Speaking in the EU’s Fisheries Committee, Mr Nicholson said: “Unless the fishermen have a degree of input and some ownership of the RAC’s they will not be effective or workable. National or Regional governments must implement them in the real spirit of which they were conceived, despite the lack of enthusiasm for them shown by the European Commission. I ask you to defend fisherman’s interests and ensure that the RAC’s have teeth.”
Mr Nicholson also asked for a special scientific investigation to determine what the six-week closure of the ‘Irish Box’ during spawning season has achieved.
He said Northern Ireland's fisherman had co-operated, over a number of years, with the six-week closure of fishing grounds during the spawning season to allow for cod recovery. But he said that a special scientific investigation should be conducted to determine the effect the closure.
(KMcA)
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