14 Amendments of Ian HUDGHTON related to 2011/2291(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to provide for the establishment of long-term management plans for all EU fisheries within a highly decentralised management regime which fully involves all relevant stakeholders ; highlights the possibility of grouping fisheries according to geographical fishing regions whereby the specificities of the different European seas should be taken into account and a separate regime should apply to small-scale coastal fisheries; believes that there should be a possibility for investments in new landing sites and start-up packages in order to secure a new generation of fishermen entering into small-scale fisheries;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the RACs in the future to use the ecosystem approach as a basis for all long-term management plans (LTMPs), with clearly defined objectives and harvest control rules playing a pivotal role in each plan, whereby the latter is to lay down rules for determining annual fishing effort taking into account the difference between the current stock size and structure of the fishery and the target stock objective; urges the Council in this regard to follow the objectives of the LTMPs without exception;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that in recent years some Member States in cooperation with their fishing industries and other stakeholders have implemented various trials of fishing gears and management practices with a view to eliminating discards; considers that trials implemented at this level and with the full cooperation of the fishing industry are more likely to be met with success than those imposed directly by the EU with minimal input from the industry;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Considers that within the reformed CFP Member States cooperating on a regional basis should be encouraged to work with the industry and other stakeholders to find innovative methods of eliminating discards in a manner most appropriate to individual regions and fisheries;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to establish a definition of overcapacity at EU level accommodating regional definitions, where local specificities are taken into account and historical rights are fully respected; further calls on the Commission to redefine fishing capacity in such a way that both the vessel's fishing capacity and its actual fishing effort are taken as a basis; stresses moreover the necessity to define small- scale fisheries in order to dissociate them from industrial fisheries;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Considers that, given the huge differences in fishing fleets, methods and practices across the EU, any definition of small-scale fisheries should be left to Member States operating within broad parameters set by the EU but within a manner most appropriate to their national and regional specificities;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Member States to carry out mandatory cutscuts wherever necessary and appropriate to achieve set targets for a sustainable level of capacity for every fishery so as to tackle the remaining significant overcapacity of thecertain fishing fleets, with sanctions for failure to meet the targets, i.e. the freezing of funds from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF);
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. RecognisNotes the Commission's proposal to introduce a system of individually transferable fishing concessions (TFCs), subject to strict safeguards, providing a special regime for small-scale and coastal fisheries as well as preferential treatment for ecologically-friendly fishing vessels, and addressing the issue of rights concentration and the possibility of revoking fishing concessions; believes, therefore, that a Member State should be exempted from the obligation to introduce TFCs if its fishing capacity is within the set ceiling or if the Member State in question can prove that it can achieve the necessary capacity reduction without using a TFC systemconsiders that the introduction of TFCs should remain a matter for the Member States, operating within a significantly decentralised CFP;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Considers that the reformed CFP must protect Europe's traditional fishing communities; believes that to this end historical fishing rights must be protected and believes that the mandatory international trade of TFCs would undermine these communities and their rights;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Notes that in the CFP Green Paper the Commission expressly stated that the 12 nautical mile regime "has generally worked well";
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to re- examinecognise that the principle of relative stability under the parameters for guaranteeing preferential share-out of coastal communities and equal access to waters and fishery resourceseeks to ensure that a link is maintained between fishing communities and the waters they have historically fished; strongly believes that the reformed CFP must fully respect historical rights;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that the special access regime for small-scale fisheries those fishing vessels that traditionally fish in those waters from ports on the adjacent coast within the 12 nautical mile zone should be retained;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Notes that the STECF report carried out in relation to the Shetland Box stated that removal of the Box could lead to an increase in fishing effort in its area and that STECF accordingly recommended that the Box remain in place;