11 Amendments of Gabriel MATO related to 2019/2177(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the landing obligation brings economic loss due to limited storage space, for which more fishing trips and thus time at sea is needed to fully use quota, higher fuel consumption, and extra costs of offloading, manual sorting, weighing and processing; whereas economic loss may negatively affect fishermen’s salary and work load, increased labour on board plus an increased number of personnel, increase of load handling, decrease in wages and decrease of rest periods; whereas the landing obligation also jeopardises safety on board and the stability of the ship due to the need to stow higher pillars of boxes.
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Urges the revision and simplification of Artile 15 of the CFP; calls for a change of focus of Article 15 which instead of pursuing an overall and absolute discards ban should incentivise the continuous ambition to avoid and reduce unwanted by-catch and discards on a case by case approach per fishery and/or stock; stresses that the landing obligation should apply to a more limited number of stocks; calls for a more integrated fisheries management approach in which discard policy has a place but is not the main driver;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned about the lack of proper control over and compliance with the landing obligation and underlines its negative impact on sustainabilitymainly due to the legislative patchwork of rules, exemptions and derogations adopted over the years to regulate the unintended consequences of the landing obligation which render enforcement very difficult in practice; calls for better use to be made of new technologies and digital solutions and for cooperation between the fishing sector and the Member State authorities to be strengthened in order to rapidly improve control;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Stresses the need to review and limit the list of stocks to which the landing obligation applies by removing, for example, species with high potential of survival, non-commercial species or zero TAC species from the TAC system, in order to alleviate the choke species problem, while managing these species through other fisheries management tools;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point a
Paragraph 12 – point a
a. using quota-based tools: the distribution of quotas in line with the expected catch composition, further use of adjustments through quota swaps with other Member States and the allocation of estimated discard share of quotas for fishers that opt to use mooptimisation of quota swaps with other Member States and neighbouring third countries with which the EU shares selective geartocks;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point b
Paragraph 12 – point b
b. implementing a marine spatial planningn area-based management approach in order to avoid discards by guiding fishers to areas where undersized fish are less likely to be present;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point e
Paragraph 12 – point e
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point f
Paragraph 12 – point f
f. adopting strategies to use unwanted catches other than for human consumption, provided that it is feasible in economic and operational terms for the fishers;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point g
Paragraph 12 – point g
g. developing a plan for unwanted catches and/ordiscard atlas as an inventory of unwanted catches in the different fisheries and areas in order to better develop regional by-catch plans, involving Member States and the fishing industry and supported by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point h
Paragraph 12 – point h
h. using and developing artificial intelligence tools to increase selectivity and control in cooperation with the fishing sector and Member States’ authorities;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Expresses concern over the fact that shared stocks with third countries (in particular the UK) may not be subject to the same landing obligation provisions; stresses the need to seek alignment with third country’s regimes on major fisheries management objectives and principles in order to maintain a level playing field;