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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:51:11 -0700
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Subject: EU bid for  Senegalese fisheries alarms WWF/LS
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>Dear colleagues,
>
>Following reports that the European Union is seeking a 60 percent increase
>in fishing access rights to Senegalese waters after the current EU fishing
>agreement with Senegal ends in May 2001,  WWF Director-General, Claude
>Martin has written to the EU Fisheries Commissioner, Franz Fischler
>opposing the EU's plans.
>
>Please find attached and below a Press Release in English issued in
>response to the EU move. Also attached is a French version.
>
>Please note the Press Release is embargoed for 00:01 GMT on Tuesday, 10
>April, 2001.
>
>regards and best wishes,
>
>Robert Kihara
>
>==========================================================
>
>EU bid for Senegalese fisheries alarms WWF
>
>Gland, Switzerland - The European Union's bid for a 60 percent increase in
>fishing access rights in already overexploited Senegalese waters,
>threatens the survival and sustainability of these fisheries, and
>contradicts proposed EU policy, WWF, the conservation organization said
today.
>
>"The European Commission knows first-hand the devastating effect
>ill-managed fisheries have had in its own waters," said Dr Claude Martin,
>Director-General of WWF International in an open letter to EU Fisheries
>Commissioner Franz Fischler opposing the EU's plans.  "It is inconceivable
>to think the Commission would use taxpayers' money to export this
>unsustainable fishing practice to threatened coastal states in West
Africa."
>
>With Africa's fisheries increasingly under pressure from highly-subsidised
>foreign fishing fleets, and lack of resources hampering the monitoring
>systems of most governments, reports that the EU is seeking to increase
>its access to fisheries in upcoming talks with Senegal also signals the
>urgent need to create national and regional fisheries' management plans.
>
>Every year, the EU spends about 270 million Euro to purchase access to
>fisheries' resources in other countries, the majority of which are in
>Africa. While this brings in much-needed foreign-currency to these
>countries, the payments are often way below the real market value.  The
>current EU fishing agreement with Senegal ends in May 2001 and the next
>round of negotiations is scheduled to resume on 20 April, 2001, in
>Brussels.  Similar fishing agreements with the West African states of
>Mauritania and Guinea Bissau are also set to expire soon, and the
>Commission is expected to renew these agreements as well. While such
>negotiations should be based on expert assessment of sustainability of the
>fishery resources available, that is not so with the latest EU bid which
>flies right in the face of proposed EU policy.
>
>"The conservation and sustainable use of fisheries' resources should be
>the starting point for fishing access agreements with third countries, not
>the short-term needs of the European Union," said Dr Martin.  ''The
>Commission's own Green Paper on the Future of the Common Fisheries Policy,
>released last month, clearly states as one of its aims the acquisition of
>''fishing rights in the waters of third countries without threatening the
>sustainable exploitation of fisheries."
>
>WWF believes that the European Union should match its words with action.
>There is potential for both West Africa and Europe to benefit from
>sustainable and equitable fisheries co-operation, but this is not what is
>being offered.
>
>For further information:
>
>Leigh-Ann Hurt, Communications Officer, WWF Endangered Seas Campaign,
>Tel: +41 22 364 9028/9025. Mobile. + 41 (0) 79 477 3560. Email:
>lhurt@wwfint.org
>
>Robert Kihara, Press Officer, WWF International, Tel: +41 22 364 9553.
>E-mail: rkihara@wwfint.org
>
>
>
>
>Robert Kihara
>Press Officer,
>WWF International
>Avenue du Mont-Blanc
>1196 - Gland, Switzerland
>Tel: +41 22 364 95 53
>Fax: +41 22 364 83 07
>email: rkihara@wwfint.org
>
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         and Editor, World Rivers Review
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       Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
         and Editor, World Rivers Review
            International Rivers Network   <'})))>><
               1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
                   Tel. (510) 848 1155   Fax (510) 848 1008
	   http://www.irn.org
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