At the 2nd meeting of the EP Fisheries Committee on Tuesday 22nd July the Committee discussed:
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 – see 00 to 41 minutes
Exchange of views with Lowri Evans on the ‘overview of the state of play regarding the implementation of the CFP’ – see 41:00 to 1:55
Lowri Evans replies to the questions from the members between 1:19 to 1:28 and 1:46 to 1:55 are revealing.
© European Union, 2014 — Source: European Parliament’. European Parliament Fisheries Committee. Meeting 22 July 2014. Second meeting of the 8th EP.
Her call for mixed fish fisheries to start work from September to develop plans to make sure the rules are in place by 1 January 2016 and not wait until then is revealing.
On the upcoming new rules coming into force on 1 January 2015, the Director-General made clear that the from the submitted plans fishermen “know what’s going be there” (see 1:45).
She mentioned that some fishermen are doing great work on selectivity but others are not (see 1:22) and there was a need to encourage technology swaps.
She raised the cultural challenge of ensuring implementation (see 1:46) and wondered aloud why the Scottish East Coast Fishermen had done so much, but the Scottish West Coast fishermen seemingly had done so little.