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Government takes on Europe over cod stocks |
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
The Scottish Government has set itself on a collision course with Europe by outlining its own plan to manage North Sea cod stocks.
Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment says the plan not only challenges assumptions made by the EU, but offers solutions to other problems.
“Scotland has a responsibility to achieve a sustainable cod fishery and that is a responsibility that our fishermen have demonstrated in recent years having bent over backwards to conserve stocks. This is also a responsibility that must be accepted by other nations that fish the same stock. Our blueprint for the future of cod management challenges head on the false premises in the European Commission's approach, which underestimates the measures already taken and the clear signs of improvement underway. It also proposes solutions.
“We have already started to think differently and imaginatively in our whole approach and to meet the undoubted challenges we face in conserving cod stocks. We must not for instance jeopardise our ability to catch healthy stocks as a result of a cod management plan.”
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