EU fiskaríkommiserur undir trýsti.
Pelagiska reiðarafelagði innan fyri ES EAPO, leggur í hesum døgum stórt trýst á fiskaríkommiserin hjá ES.
EAPO ynskir millum annað, at fiskivinnuavtalan fyri 2010, millum Føroyar og ES verður sett úr gildi beinavegin. Eisini skal allur fiskainnflutningur úr Føroyum inn á ES marknaðin, verða steðgaður beinavegin.
Umframt hettar, ynskja teir eisini at steingja allar havnir fyri føroyskum fiskiskipum.
Niðanfyri kann lesast tíðindaskrivið, sum EAPO hevur sent út.
PRESS RELEASE
EU pelagic fishing
industry calls upon EU Commission to take immediate action against Iceland and
Faroe Islands
After Iceland has
set an autonomous mackerel quota of 130,000 tonnes for 2010 last week the Faroe
Islands decided to do the same by setting an autonomous mackerel quota of
85,000 tonnes. The EU pelagic fishing industry urgently calls upon the EU
commissioner for fisheries, Mme Maria Damanaki, to act quickly and decisively in
reaction to this irresponsible behaviour of the two countries.
The EU pelagic fishing industry, organized in EAPO, is deeply concerned about the
irresponsible behaviour by Iceland and Faroe Islands by setting large
autonomous mackerel quota outside the existing mackerel management and
scientific advice. This outrageous
behaviour could seriously jeopardize the currently healthy mackerel stock with
huge negative economic consequences for the EU industry as a result.
Therefore the EU industry calls upon the EU act quickly and decisively
in reaction to this irresponsible behaviour by taking the following actions:
1. Immediate
suspension of the current (2010) bilateral fisheries agreement between the EU
and the Faroe Islands;
2. Request
the same from the Norwegian government in the light of the existing 10 year
mackerel agreement between the EU
and Norway;
3. Publicly
denounce the setting of a 85,000 tonnes autonomous mackerel quota by the Faroe
Islands government and point out that this behaviour is akin to IUU fishing;
4. Develop
and execute immediate EU trade sanctions against the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
More precisely, set an immediate import ban for all seafood products
originating from Faroe Islands and Iceland;
5. Close
the EU ports and EEZ’s for all Icelandic and Faroe fishing vessels;
6. Place
Icelandic and Faroese vessels fishing for mackerel on the IUU black list;
7. Seek
an immediate suspension by Iceland of its declared 130,000 tonnes mackerel
quota in the accession negotiations starting today.
Gerard van
Balsfoort, chair of EAO’s Northern Pelagic Working Group: “The EU must be
prepared to stand up for and protect Community pelagic fishermen against this
outrageous behaviour. We are not prepared to stand idly by what is happening
now and we will not accept any mackerel quota reductions, caused by the
irresponsible overfishing carried out by both countries.”
Contact :
Gerard van Balsfoort (chair pelagic working group)
:
Tel: +31 70 336 9602 / e-mail: gbalsfoort@pelagicfish.eu
EAPO secretariat:
Tel: + 32 59 32 18 76 / e-mail : info@eapo.com
