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==== <u>Acknowledgment of the Wageningen University</u> ==== | ==== <u>Acknowledgment of the Wageningen University</u> ==== | ||
A scientific report on the impact of pulse fishing<ref>Click [https://edepot.wur.nl/369915/ here] to read full report</ref> 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. | A scientific report on the impact of pulse fishing<ref>Click [https://edepot.wur.nl/369915/ here] to read full report</ref> 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 report is inconclusive and that the permits delivered by the EU are, in fact, used by the Netherlands for commercial purposes. | ||
“<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>” | “<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>” | ||