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In October 2019, dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten has notified the Dutch government she would seizing the Justice Court of the European Union to file against the ban on electric fishing and would be extending all 42 permits until July 2021. | In October 2019, dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten has notified the Dutch government she would seizing the Justice Court of the European Union to file against the ban on electric fishing and would be extending all 42 permits until July 2021. | ||
== | == When dutch scientists and the government admit the scandal == | ||
A scientific report on the impact of pulse fishing was published in 2015 by a group of Dutch, Belgian and German scientists. All dutch scientists participating in the report are members of the IMARES, the marine research organ of the Wageningen University, officially in charge of the so-called “research” pursued by the dutch fleet . In this report, the dutch acknowledge for the first time that their is inconclusive and that the permits delivered by the EU are, in fact, used by the Netherlands for commercial purposes. | |||
"<i>The Netherlands have gone beyond the legal framework in recent years by expanding the number of temporary permits. It seemed experimental, but researchers have never written a proposal for a research program that required 84 vessels […] Fishing with electric 'pulse' trawlers is just more profitable</i> | “<i>The issuing of 84 licences to carry out further scientific data collection is not in the spirit of the previous advice and that such a level of expansion is not justified from a scientific perspective. This level of scientific derogations amounts to around 35% of the entire Dutch beam trawl fleet greater than 18m in overall length (based on STECF data), which potentially could use the pulse trawl to target flatfish. This is well in excess of the 5% limit included in the current legislation. At this level this is essentially permitting a commercial fishery under the guise of scientific research.</i>”<ref>Click [https://edepot.wur.nl/369915/ here] to read full report</ref> | ||
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File:Report ICES Dutchscientistsadmit 2015.jpg|Report of the IMARES | |||
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March 2018, dutch minister Carola Schouten publicly admitted<ref>See NOS article [https://nos.nl/artikel/2224621-schouten-brussel-gaf-zelf-toestemming-voor-vergunningen-pulsvisserij.html/ here] to the dutch parliament, that scientific research had not yet been carried out when the European Commission was asked by the dutch to issue additional licenses: | |||
<u>Original quote:</u> | |||
“Ook toen duidelijk was dat ons wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar pulsvisserij nog niet op gang was, gaf de commissie toestemming voor een derde rond vissersboten” | |||
<u>Translation:</u> | |||
“Even when it was clear that our scientific research into pulse fishing was not yet underway, the committee gave permission for a third party on fishing boats”. | |||
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Adriaan Rijnsdorp, organic fisherman and researcher from the influencial Wageningen University (the one officialy conducting the research on the electric pulse fishing boats), also stated in 2018: | |||
“<i>The Netherlands have gone beyond the legal framework in recent years by expanding the number of temporary permits. It seemed experimental, but researchers have never written a proposal for a research program that required 84 vessels […] Fishing with electric 'pulse' trawlers is just more profitable</i>”.<ref>BioNieuws, edition of January 27 2018</ref> | |||
== Annexe: the dutch sing for the loss of their fleet == | == Annexe: the dutch sing for the loss of their fleet == | ||