Activities of Kriton ARSENIS related to 2011/2290(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy – Overarching Communication
Amendments (23)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that sustainable fishing restoring and maintaining stocks well above the levels that can produce Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) will be of huge environmental, social and economic advantage, as the environment will be less degraded, fishing communities will have a secure future, and the fisheries sector will be profitable without having to depend on public support to survive; Stresses that applying the ecosystem and precautionary approach to fisheries management and ensuring that the CFP contributes to achieving good environmental status in the marine environment by 2020, in line with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, are vital in ensuring the long term environmental, economic and social sustainability of the European fishing sector;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that the world's oceans not only provide nutrition, food security and livelihood for 500 million people worldwide and at least 50 % of their animal protein for 400 million people in the poorest countries through fisheries, but are also crucial in climate change mitigation, as blue carbon sinks represent the largest long-term sink of carbon, provide transport, and are home to some 90 % of the habitat for life on earth;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that imported fisheries and aquaculture products should be subject to the same environmental, food safety and social standards as European domestic production, and is of the view that developing countries will need financial and technical assistance in order to reach the same standards;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Emphasises that the EU should promote sustainable resource management in third countries and thus calls on the EU to step up actions to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities and stresses that Sustainable Fisheries Agreements should be more focused on scientific research and data collection, monitoring, control and surveillance; To this end the EU should direct the appropriate financial, technical and human resources support to third partner countries;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the common fisheries policy (wild fisheries and aquaculture sector) needs a thorough and ambitious reform if the EU is to lay the foundations of a socio-economically viable andensure the long-term environmentally sustainable fisheries industry in the Unionility, which is a prerequisite for securing the economic and social viability of the EU fishing sector;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that incentives should be offered to those who fish sustainably using environment-friendly fishingally sustainable, low impact and selective fishing gears and methods, in order to ensure positivethe widespread use of such fishing practices;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that the reform of the CFP must establish the right instruments to support an ecosystem-based fisheries management; believes, therefore, that the multiannual management plans must take account of such an ecosystemic approach; , to this end, in order to secure the reversal of the collapse of the fishing sector, and to conserve living aquatic resources and marine ecosystems, and as part of a precautionary approach, Member States shall establish a coherent network of fish stock recovery areas, in which all fishing activities are prohibited, including areas important for fish productivity, in particular nursery grounds, spawning grounds and feeding grounds for fish stocks. Member States shall identify and designate as many sites as are necessary to establish the coherent network of fish stock recovery areas amounting to between 10% and 20% of territorial waters in each Member State and shall notify the Commission of these sites. The establishment of the sites shall be gradual over time.
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the management of fisheries resources on the basis of MSY, in order to phase out overfishing and achieve sustainable stock conservationtresses that the Common Fisheries Policy shall apply the precautionary approach to fisheries management, and shall ensure that the sustainable exploitation of living marine biological resources restores and maintains populations of all stocks of harvested species above levels capable of producing maximum sustainable yield, or the relevant proxy, by 2015;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines, however, the difficulties involved in implementing the MSY principle, in particular in the case of mixed fisheries or where scientific data on fish stocks are unavailable or unreliable; Where, despite targeted measures to achieve stock recover, the target of maintaining or restoring fish stocks above levels capable of producing maximum sustainable yield by 2015 can not be reached for one or more stocks: (a) owing to data gaps, proxy standards in accordance with Commission Decision 2010/477/EU on criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Directive 2008/56/EC) may be adopted and fishing mortality shall be further reduced on a precautionary basis. Member States and the Commission shall evaluate and address research and knowledge barriers to ensure that additional information will become available as soon as possible. (b) owing to the severe depletion of the stock, additional management measures shall be introduced in the context of multiannual plans, including but not limited to a further reduction in fishing mortality, closed areas and closed seasons, with a view to restore and maintain population above levels capable of producing the maximum sustainable yield as fast as biologically possible and by 2020 at the latest. (c) owing to the mixed nature of the fishery, the management shall be guided by the scientific advice relating to the most vulnerable target species in terms of their spawning stock biomass, age and size distribution and other relevant descriptors,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Emphasizes that the Common Fisheries Policy shall contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good environmental status by 2020 at the latest as set out in Directive 2008/56/EC, including in particular that all stocks of harvested species exhibit a population age and size distribution that is indicative of a healthy stock, and descriptors 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, and 10.
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need for more scientific researchto strengthen and to finance scientific research through the EMFF, in order to develop tackle and fishing techniques in such a way as to avoid bycatches of non-targeted species and promote other sustainable fishing methods; underlines the importance of addressing the management of mixed fisheries to this end;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the Commission to conduct pilot projects aimed at the improvement of gear selectivity on a regional fishery, by the end of 2014. The results that emerge shall be included in the long-term management plan of each fishery in the form of the compulsory use of the most selective gear available.
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Expresses its doubts over the proposals relating to the market in bycatches, and stresses that, in case of implementation, adequate safeguards, including the establishment of a price ceiling, should be provided in order to avoid the emergence of a parallel market that would paradoxically encourage fishermen to increase their catch;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Stresses that when allocating individual fishing opportunities a Member State shall give priority access to fishing vessels that fulfil transparent and objective criteria. The transparent criteria will be set by the Council and the Parliament, will be made publicly available and will include but not be limited to: (a) the employment of more selective fishing methods, gears and practices with low by-catch and low impact on the marine ecosystem; (b) have a good record of compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy and with respecting catch and/or fishing effort limits designated by scientific advice (c) ensure increased, good quality employment, provided that this does not have negative environmental impacts; (d) the use of vessels and fishing methods that have low fuel emissions and are energy efficient; and (e) the use of video surveillance or an equivalent electronic monitoring equipment, (f) working conditions that comply with relevant international standards, notably the 2007 ILO Work in Fishing Convention.
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Believes strongly that the reformed CFP must not be removed from the socio- economic and environmental context in which it exists; considers that the fisheries and aquaculture sectors must be seen as important direct and indirect sources of job creation in our maritime regions, which underpin their economy as a whole;. To this end the CFP should contribute to enhance the standard of living of the communities depending on fisheries, granting better working standards for fishermen, in particular through compliance with the health and safety legislation and of the rules established by the collective labour agreements
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
III - Regionalisation and multi-annual plans
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31 b. Believes that the reform should be an opportunity to significantly move towards a renewed cooperation between the scientific community, industry and social partners, in orde to implement the process of regionalization.
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Believes, more generally, that the role of the RACs should be strengthened; in this respect, urges the Commission to table a new proposal aimed at strengthening the participation of stakeholders and small- scale fisheristresses that the RACs should promote a balanced representation of all stakeholders, including representatives from all segments of the fishing sector, the processing industry, scientists, local authorities, NGOs, control agencies and civil society representatives, thus leading to genuine regionalisation in the CFP; welcomes, in this regard, the Commission's proposal to set up a Black Sea Advisory Council;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Stresses that an ambitious and real reform of the CFP can only be successful if sufficient financial means are available for the next ten years, in order to support all the reform measures and tackle the socio- economic and environmental problems that may occur;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 d (new)
Paragraph 34 d (new)
34 d. Asks that EU shall aim at concluding, as soon as possible, Sustainable Fisheries Cooperation Agreements with neighbouring countries where the EU provides funding and technical support in order to achieve a more concerted and coherent policy, with the aim of a harmonised and sustainable fisheries policy in all shared sea basins, therefore increasing the effectiveness of the CFP in all the regions concerned. These agreements shall be concluded in the spirit of a fair and equitable cooperation and the respect of human rights and shall aim at sharing responsibilities fairly between the Union and the respective partner country.
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 e (new)
Paragraph 34 e (new)
34 e. In order to improve the cooperation with neighboring countries and to improve the management of shared stocks, the EU should aim at concluding sustainable fisheries cooperation agreements with these countries. These cooperation agreements should not aim at obtaining fishing rights for EU vessels but should aim at achieving a situation where the EU provides funding and technical suppor in exchange for the application of the same or comparable sustainable management rules as the EU in the third partner country.
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 f (new)
Paragraph 34 f (new)
34 f. Believes that an effort should be made at EU level to monitor the activities of the EU fleets that operate in non- EU waters outside the framework of fisheries agreements, as these should respect the same guiding principles applied to those fishing in the EU. We believe that concrete measures should be put forward to ensure that working conditions for crew members domiciled outside the EU and working on-board vessels flying an EU flag should be equal to those of workers domiciled in the EU.