Examples of using Drift nets in English and their translations into German
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Drift nets vote.
Subject: Drift nets.
Question 46 by Mr Simeoni: Fishing for albacore with drift nets.
Mr President, drift nets are also used in the Baltic, where they lead to overfishing of salmon.
Question No 98, by Mr Lane,represented by Mrs Banotti: Drift nets.
In the text adopted today the abolition of drift nets is mentioned several times.
Other North Sea countries alsofished herring in the North Sea with the help of drift nets.
Bottom-set and drift nets must be set with a minimum interval between nets of 300 m.
There is no need either for me to explain why we in this House object to what happens with drift nets.
It is important to look toward a gradual phasing-out of drift nets in the Mediterranean over a period of time.
Large-meshed drift nets are presently used a lot in the oceans for catching tuna, swordfish and the common Atlantic squid.
We have to keep to the existing legal framework here,which still allows drift nets up to 2.5 km in length to be used.
With regard to the use of drift nets, this is the first time that this type of gear has been associated with the problem of fish discards.
There are also areas of the Mediterranean Sea where it is virtually impossible to fish with aline because the bottom is absolutely infested with drift nets.
Mr President, we all know that the decision taken to ban drift nets was a political decision without any scientific basis.
Drift nets come under the regulation on technical measures, in a broader context and not specifically for the Mediterranean, as we all know.
Under the circumstances, I believe the existing fleet using drift nets which are a danger to the balance of the Mediterranean must be converted.
LANDA MENDIBE(NI).-(ES) Madam President, both the Commission's proposal andMr Garcia's report on it are highly critical of the use of drift nets.
The means available to the Commission tocontrol the situation include banning overfishing with drift nets, in collaboration with the various national governments.
As regards traditional fishing and the Italian swordfish fleet,we agreed during the debate on the Baldarelli report to phase out the use of drift nets.
This is illustrated by the hesitant, tardy application of measures restricting the use of highly damaging fishing gear-large drift nets- whose use is still permitted and which ought already to have been totally abolished, at least in Community waters3.
FOOD EMPOWERMENT PROJECT(Executive Director) Sometimes, when people look at fishing they look only at the fish eaten by humans,not necessarily at the animals caught in the drift nets.
Consequently, I do not want to go into the merits of the amendments, but I believe that the amendments relating to drift nets fall outside the legal framework of this proposal,and so the Commission cannot accept them, because drift nets are not just a Mediterranean issue.
Amendments Nos 1 and 8 aim to reestablish an equitable situation between Italian fishermen affected by the Spadare plan andfishermen from the other Member States affected by the decision to ban drift nets.
It is particularly regrettable that, on this point, the Commission decided to disregard the international rule,by looking for the total abolition of the use of drift nets in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, for this proposal is not based on scientific considerations but in reality stems from political bargaining.
Certainly, no-one claims that drift nets are harmless and without impact on resources- no fishing technique is- but it is also clear that this insistence on eliminating the spadare gives the impression that Italian fishermen are being made the scapegoat for a wider crisis, which they are certainly not the most responsible for.
In general, it must be recognised that the Mediterranean is an endangered sea: the indiscriminate withdrawal of fishery stocks over the last few decades,with the use of drift nets in particular, has resulted in a significant depletion of species.
Firstly, it sets out in a particularly clear manner which fishing gear is authorised or banned;it lays down the parameters for drift nets, mesh sizes, the minimum size of fish, deep-sea trawling and so on. Equally, it ensures that European policy with regard to other seas of relevance to us, whether in the Atlantic Ocean or the North Sea, is coherent.
And as a last example, the new protocol with Moroccoallocates EUR 14 million of Europe's EUR 36 millionannual contribution to projects in support of the local fisheries sector: modernisation and restructuring of the small-scale fisheries fleet;financial compensation forthe elimination of drift nets; the development of research, training and fisheries organisations; improvement of landing infrastructure; etc.
The other track, even if this is apparently blocked at the moment for political reasons, is to act, for example, on the basis of the Italian government's proposals to work through structural measures aimed at thefishing communities in Italy to phase out the use of drift nets by these communities and encourage them to switch to other techniques or other economic activities.