Responding to news that massive quantities of cod and other fish species in European waters are being discarded because of the fishing quota system, Greenpeace oceans campaigner Oliver Knowles said:
"The quota system has been a disaster
for fish stocks, a disaster for fishermen and a disaster for conservation. It's
time to abandon this madness and introduce a new approach to fisheries
management - one based on controlling the number of days fisherman can spend at
sea and introducing large marine reserves which provide fish stocks with the
space to recover."
NOTES
Greenpeace proposes a new approach
which:
- Abandons the rigid quota system and replaces it with effort controls to reduce overall days at sea.
- Makes further reductions in overall fleet capacity.
- Establishes large scale marine reserves closed to fishing, to provide areas where fish stocks can recover.
