EU Fisheries Policy: An unmitigated disaster (Marta Andreasen, The Record: Europe, BBC, 25.02.2012)

The Record: Europe
Shirin Wheeler in Strasbourg, 25 February 2012

With Marta Andreasen MEP, UK Independence Party (South East), EFD Group, and Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies and Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson

25 February - Ed Lowther (Producer)
Link to full video (25:27): http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/h...

Future fishing
Too many boats chasing too few fish is an argument commonly heard during discussions over the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.

It is not a policy that has earned the EU many brownie points over the years - fishermen don't like it and environmentalists say stocks have dwindled.

Meanwhile the policy of discards, where fish are thrown back into the sea because the catch is over quota, has been attacked by all sides.

Moves are now under way involving all EU institutions to try and reform the policy.

Shirin Wheeler is joined by UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen, Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies and Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson to discuss how the MEPs can play their part in this mammoth task.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/h...

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[eurofishTV]

This is an important issue. Please check EurofishTV to find out more about the fisheries policy :)

[MrPeterl747]

chris davies is talking nonsense

[sidvidkid]

WTF? Has the beeb been hit by austerity cuts and no longer has any chairs...or studios...and had to borrow the cameraman from gilmour girls? Is this taking place in a corridor? Surreal...

You dont need any auditors or debates to know that everything the EU does is utterly useless at best, economically destructive at worst. Things will get a lot worse in europe until euro people learn - you cant change mathematic reality by order of a bureaucrat.

[Siegetower]

The LibDem traitor seems to want more of the same failed policies "there are too many boats" and "we need to decrease the amount of boats."

I'm sure he's happy for every last fisherman indigent to the UK to go out of business and allow unfettered access to British waters by the same Spanish fleets that have denuded the fishing waters of Spain.

[wayne j]

POLICIES CREATED AND BASED ON LIES,,! LIES AND MORE LIES...! Every fish that was thrown back in to the sea..! THROUGH FRAUDULENT LEGAL LEGISLATION..! WOULD HAVE FEED EVERY CHILD IN A POOR 3RD WORLD COUNTRY..! They aught to be a shamed of them selves..!

[shirleymae30]

We are not buying your lies anymore !!!, Overfishing is an even bigger lie than global warming was !!!. If the governments, the corporate monopolies, or the U.N. continue to think they have the authority to subjugate, regulate, legislate, violate, and interfere with my family's Natural Rights of obtaining life sustaining natural resources, then they are sadly mistaken, and they run the very real risk of becoming part of the food chain !!!.

[shirleymae30]

Overfishing is a Lie !!!. It is time to denounce, disavow, and defund the U.N. and their corrupt antihumanistic agenda. If the choice comes between bloodshed, or surrendering America to a corrupt global governance agenda, that will be under U.N. control, I say let there be globalists blood shed !!!. on a global scale !!!.

[shirleymae30]

There is absolutely no lack of fish in the sea !!!. It is part of a corrupt, murderous, corporate controled, U.N. agenda that is designed to steal away the natural rights to all forms of life sustaining natural resources, from all the people of the world. The government at the behest of a currupt globalist agenda has stolen and regulated away my family's access to life sustaining resources !!!. Our own government has made me into an outlaw fisherman, so an outlaw fisherman i shall be !!!.