Activities of Catherine CHABAUD related to 2019/0078M(NLE)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on a motion for a non-legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol on the implementation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Cape Verde (2019-2024)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that, in a context of overfishing, while the European Union is committed to the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 14 (on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development), the new reference tonnage represents an increase of 60% in comparison with the current protocol; calls, therefore, for very careful monitoring of stocks, with particular attention to pelagic sharks, whose vulnerability is stressed by scientists;
Amendment 3 #
2. Calls on the Commission and Cape Verde to provide more detailed information on the cumulative effects that the various fisheries agreements in force in the exclusive economic zone concerned have on the resource; as well as the development of activities linked to industrial fishing in the region;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
- promoting a sustainable blue economy by supporting small-scale local fisheries, the modernisation of port infrastructure and the position of women and young people, who play an important part in marketing and processing;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – indent 2
Paragraph 3 – indent 2
- improving scientific knowledge and cooperation in this ocean region by enabling local scientists to travel on board vessels operating in this area, in view of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030);
Amendment 23 #
5a. Recalls that marine resources cross borders, and therefore calls, with a view to bolstering regional and global strategies for fisheries governance with third countries, for the cumulative impact of the fisheries agreements concluded with countries in the region to be taken into account;