Fifthly, we must prevent our vessels from further interfering in the already gravely ravaged fishing grounds and local fishing communities.
The shortage of funding to modernise fishing equipment results in increasingly defective fishing vessels and, what is worse, cases of vessels sinking.
However, it is only obligatory for vessels of more than 45 metres.
If it merely involves spelling out a faculty for individual vessels, there is no need to regulate.
Such an obligation would divert the inspection vessel from the performance of its existing tasks, which is certainly not acceptable.
Some fishing vessels were fired on a few days ago.
This agreement provides fishing possibilities for 33 freezer-seiners and 13 pole-and-line tuna vessels.
And yet more than 4 000 vessels sail through it each year.
