3
May
2022
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A sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of fisheries and aquaculture (A9-0089/2022 - Isabel Carvalhais)
Mr President, I also supported this report because it clearly opposes harmful fishing practices, be they driftnets or bottom trawls. We must no doubt limit these harmful practices, and this is what is becoming of this report in our legislation. We already have completely dead territories of our seas, where there is practically no life. The current need for fisheries regulation, which is already applied on the basis of international conventions, also shows that it brings long-term results, the recovery of stocks, the transfer of biodiversity to these marine territories. I think that we need to focus on selective fishing methods rather than industrial types of hunting, and we need to restore the health and biodiversity of our seas, as this report undoubtedly makes possible.