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== The state of electric pulse fishing in 2020 == | == The state of electric pulse fishing in 2020 == | ||
== <u>The ban of electric pulse fishing</u> == | ==== <u>The ban of electric pulse fishing</u> ==== | ||
[[File:Pulse fishing vote.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image|EU's 2017 vote to ban electric pulse fishing]] | [[File:Pulse fishing vote.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image|EU's 2017 vote to ban electric pulse fishing]] | ||
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After a rollercoaster of news (from the creation of dutch task force to lobby in the EU parliament against the application of the ban, multiple arrestations of dutch electric vessels full of illegally fished sole, destabilization campaigns against multiple NOG’s by dutch newspapers and the call from dutch prime minister Mark Rutte fro France and Germany to rally the Netherlands in its scientific research), the transition period prior to the complete ban started in August 2019. | After a rollercoaster of news (from the creation of dutch task force to lobby in the EU parliament against the application of the ban, multiple arrestations of dutch electric vessels full of illegally fished sole, destabilization campaigns against multiple NOG’s by dutch newspapers and the call from dutch prime minister Mark Rutte fro France and Germany to rally the Netherlands in its scientific research), the transition period prior to the complete ban started in August 2019. | ||
== <u>Since the ban</u> == | ==== <u>Since the ban</u> ==== | ||
Since summer 2019 the Netherlands has continued to break European law. Among its former fleet of 84 electric pulse fishing boats, still 42 of them are active today. While the latest regulation allows them to keep a maximum of 14 boats to pursue research (5% of its fleet) until the end of the transition period, the Netherlands seems determined to pursue its electric exploitation of the Northern sea. | Since summer 2019 the Netherlands has continued to break European law. Among its former fleet of 84 electric pulse fishing boats, still 42 of them are active today. While the latest regulation allows them to keep a maximum of 14 boats to pursue research (5% of its fleet) until the end of the transition period, the Netherlands seems determined to pursue its electric exploitation of the Northern sea. | ||
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In October 2019, dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten has notified the Dutch government she would seizing the Court of Justice 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 Court of Justice of the European Union to file against the ban on electric fishing and would be extending all 42 permits until July 2021. | ||
== | == Wageningen University scientist admits == | ||
Adriaan Rijnsdorp, organic fisherman and researcher from the influencial Wageningen University (the one officialy conducting the research on the electric pulse fishing boats), stated in 2018: | Adriaan Rijnsdorp, organic fisherman and researcher from the influencial Wageningen University (the one officialy conducting the research on the electric pulse fishing boats), stated in 2018: | ||