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To: maceng2 who wrote (8)	1/13/2004 2:08:01 PM
From: maceng2	of 405

EU Fish Deal 'Threatens Industry Survival' By Pippa Crerar, Political Staff, PA News news.scotsman.com The “unintended consequences” of the deal reached at December’s European fisheries council meeting in Brussels “threaten the very survival” of the Scottish industry, MPs heard today. The agreement allows UK vessels to catch 53% more haddock this year. But fishermen say the combination of a maximum 15 days at sea, and a permit system to restrict catching in a massive area of the North Sea, make it impossible to net even as much as they were allowed to last year. More than 120 skippers in the Scottish white fish fleet have announced they are to take the law into their own hands and ignore the deal. In a backbench debate on the restrictions imposed on the industry, Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party’s leader at Westminster, told MPs: “These are not just unintended consequences of this deal but consequences which threaten the very survival of the fishing industry itself.” He told Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw, who negotiated the deal: “You are living in some parallel universe, different from the rest of us, where everybody says ‘what a marvellous job you did’ despite obviously their grave misgivings, indeed their fears.” Mr Bradshaw said the fisheries council meeting was “not an easy one” but insisted he was “happy to defend” the rationale of the agreement.

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