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Fyrrum nýlendur Dana og hafsvæði þeirra, -Grænland, Ísland, Færeyja og Noregs ráða öllu Norður-Atlandshafinu. Þessar þjóðir þurfa að standa gegn ásælni ESB í auðlindir þessara þjóða sem sýnir sig í skipan sérstaks sendiherra ESB með málefnum Norðurheimskautssvæða.

Kannski er nauðsyn að þessar þjóðir bindist sterkari pólitískum samtökum við Kanada og BNA í vestri og Rússland í austri um hagsmuni sína á norðursvæðinu. Myndað þannig sterkara hagsmunaafl til að verjast þessari ásælni í auðlindir á þessu svæði. 

Grænland fær aukna sjálfsstjórn

Fiskveiðistefna ESB og Bretland.

 SVONA ER UMGENGNIN UM FISKIMIÐIN MEÐ REGLUM ESB .

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Wednesday, 4 February 2009

EU fishing policy costs UK billions

 

"Food bills have been pushed up by £186 a year as a result of the EU’s disastrous fisheries policy, a report claims today.

It says that the Common Fisheries Policy, which handed Britain’s historic fishing rights to other member states, has cost the UK £2.81billion a year in terms of lost sales, jobs, tax revenue and dumped fish.

The claims were backed by David Bellamy, the TV botanist and environmental campaigner, who offered a scathing assessment of the impact of the 25-year-old policy.

He said the CFP has destroyed 97,000 UK jobs and forced fishermen to dump 880,000 tons of dead fish into the North Sea because it is illegal to land them.

Professor Bellamy, who has written a foreword to the report, which was commissioned by the TaxPayers’ Alliance and Global Vision, said: ‘We are paying billions for a policy that has done huge ecological harm and is pushing cod on to the endangered list.

‘We must put a stop to this man-made catastrophe.’

Dr Lee Rotherham, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, added: ‘Food costs more in the shops, tens of thousands have lost their jobs and millions of fish are being killed. This scandal must stop.’ "

By Daily Mail Reporter

 

	UK News

25 September 2008

'Crazy' EU Laws Force Scottish Boats To Dump Fish

Fishermen in Scotland are being forced to throw away up to £40 million worth of fish every year, as a result of "crazy European regulations".

European rues mean almost a million tonnes of fish are discarded in the North Sea every year, with around 100,000 tonnes dumped by Scottish boats, a special Discards Summit, hosted by the Scottish Government in Edinburgh was told today.

It means for every North Sea cod caught and landed by Scots fishermen, another has to be thrown away.

The "scandalous" level of waste was revealed by Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead, to fishermen, scientists, conservationists and Norwegian Government representatives at the meeting called to work out how to reduce the dumping of marketable fish at sea.

The summit marks the start of a campaign by the Scottish Government to change some of the European rules which force trawlermen to throw away fish that could be landed and sold.

Mr Lochhead said: "I am appalled and frustrated at the scandalous level of waste and the economic and environmental madness discards represent. In what other industry would it be acceptable to throw away so much of what is produced?

"Responsible and hard-working skippers are heartbroken because they have to throw away precious fish. That is why they, like me, are determined to tackle the scourge of discards.

"The scale of the problem beggars belief. Crazy European regulations mean that at a time of worldwide food shortages and higher food prices at home, our fishermen are having to throw away up to £40 million worth of fish for which there is a perfectly good market."

He added: "We have an obligation to act and, hot on the heels of other innovative conservation measures adopted by our fishermen, we are once again ready to take the lead in Europe. Today's summit shows there is a consensus on the need to tackle one of the biggest flaws in the Common Fisheries Policy.

"What we need to do now is find solutions. Clearly, given the current European rules and regulations we can't do it alone but I am confident that Scotland can play a leading role in finding a way of allowing fishermen to land much more of the fish which they catch but are currently forced to discard.

"This would benefit fishermen, consumers and the environment."