Os subsídios da UE
Uma das razões para o estado dos stocks de peixe estarem com problemas são os subsídios da UE. Foram planeados de uma forma que têm o efeito de destruir ainda mais os recursos e de aumentar o esforço de captura dos barcos.
A ideia é modernizar a frota, o que significa: barcos maiores, mais potentes, com melhor equipamento. A consequência é que estes barcos vão apanhar muito mais peixe. Conseguem chegar a zonas que antes não eram afectadas pela pesca e muitas vezes preocupantes porque são zonas de profundidade onde todo o ecossistema é muito mais delicado e os animais têm um crescimento mais lento. As redes são maiores, a velocidade que os barcos atingem também e com isso a área coberta por cada barco é superior.
Além disto trazem as desvantagens do ponto de vista social. São menos os pescadores que beneficiam da actividade da pesca e grande parte do lucro fica concentrado numa só grande empresa ou no armador.
Depois há a questão de como é que é feita a distribuição do dinheiro, para quem e porquê? Que tipo de barco e de pesca? com o website fishsubsidy.org é possível perceber um pouco mais...
Today sees the launch of fishsubsidy.org, a new transparency website from the farmsubsidy.org stable. It presents data on 97,260 payments totalling 8.5 billion euro from 1994 to 2006 under the European Union's common fisheries policy. Of this, some 3.4 billion euro was paid to vessels and 5.1 billion euro to non-vessel recipients. Most of this money was paid from the EU budget with some ‘co-financing’ from national governments. 44 per cent of the money went to Spain.
The EU’s common fisheries policy (CFP) is a system of rules, fishing quotas, enforcement controls and subsidies that has failed to stop the decline of fish stocks. Up until 2004 a large share of the money was spent on building powerful new fishing vessels and subsidies continue to be paid for modernisation of vessels and other measures that increase the pressure on dwindling fish stocks.
The data was provided by the European Commission and since the first disclosure in 2007, we have received a further three versions of the data, each time a little bit cleaner and with fewer mistakes. It has been a long process to obtain and verify the data and there are still errors and anomalies (for example misspellings, errors in location and date information and some completely blank fields). The data also fails to identify the owners of the vessels receiving subsidy or the companies and organisations who receive non-vessel fisheries subsidies. It is by no means a perfect data set but we think now is the right time to publish it on fishsubsidy.org.
The common fisheries policy is currently undergoing a policy review and we hope that greater transparency will ensure that the debate about the future of the policy is informed by accurate, detailed and relevant information. We see the launch of the fishsubsidy.org website as just the start in a process of greater public scrutiny of subsidies paid under the CFP.
A ideia é modernizar a frota, o que significa: barcos maiores, mais potentes, com melhor equipamento. A consequência é que estes barcos vão apanhar muito mais peixe. Conseguem chegar a zonas que antes não eram afectadas pela pesca e muitas vezes preocupantes porque são zonas de profundidade onde todo o ecossistema é muito mais delicado e os animais têm um crescimento mais lento. As redes são maiores, a velocidade que os barcos atingem também e com isso a área coberta por cada barco é superior.
Além disto trazem as desvantagens do ponto de vista social. São menos os pescadores que beneficiam da actividade da pesca e grande parte do lucro fica concentrado numa só grande empresa ou no armador.
Depois há a questão de como é que é feita a distribuição do dinheiro, para quem e porquê? Que tipo de barco e de pesca? com o website fishsubsidy.org é possível perceber um pouco mais...
Today sees the launch of fishsubsidy.org, a new transparency website from the farmsubsidy.org stable. It presents data on 97,260 payments totalling 8.5 billion euro from 1994 to 2006 under the European Union's common fisheries policy. Of this, some 3.4 billion euro was paid to vessels and 5.1 billion euro to non-vessel recipients. Most of this money was paid from the EU budget with some ‘co-financing’ from national governments. 44 per cent of the money went to Spain.
The EU’s common fisheries policy (CFP) is a system of rules, fishing quotas, enforcement controls and subsidies that has failed to stop the decline of fish stocks. Up until 2004 a large share of the money was spent on building powerful new fishing vessels and subsidies continue to be paid for modernisation of vessels and other measures that increase the pressure on dwindling fish stocks.
The data was provided by the European Commission and since the first disclosure in 2007, we have received a further three versions of the data, each time a little bit cleaner and with fewer mistakes. It has been a long process to obtain and verify the data and there are still errors and anomalies (for example misspellings, errors in location and date information and some completely blank fields). The data also fails to identify the owners of the vessels receiving subsidy or the companies and organisations who receive non-vessel fisheries subsidies. It is by no means a perfect data set but we think now is the right time to publish it on fishsubsidy.org.
The common fisheries policy is currently undergoing a policy review and we hope that greater transparency will ensure that the debate about the future of the policy is informed by accurate, detailed and relevant information. We see the launch of the fishsubsidy.org website as just the start in a process of greater public scrutiny of subsidies paid under the CFP.