| The tendency to overfish also can be increased by the presence of operating or capital subsidies. |
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| Participants expressed a strong need to know about enforcement and penalties against those who overfish. |
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| Through information gathered through surveillance activities, we believe that rogue vessels continue to overfish in NAFO waters. |
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| Participants could all agree that so long as there was pressure for profit, countries and their fishers would keep finding ways to overfish. |
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| Traditionally, economics taught that common ownership of resources results in excessive exploitation, as when fishermen overfish a common pond. |
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| I hope that the hon. member is not saying that we should be allowing fishers to overfish. |
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| Either we overfish, which means disrupting the ecosystem, or we provide the facility for more fish to be produced by aquaculture. |
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| This morning the numbers were given that the foreigners overfish approximately 100,000 tonnes of fish on the Grand Banks. |
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| We did not have the fortitude to go the distance and take on the nations that continue to overfish. |
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| The industrial, highly mechanized approach to fishing provides both the means and the incentive to overfish. |
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| We can for example carry on for hundreds of thousands of years harvesting herring from the North Sea, as long as we do not overfish them. |
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| What was originally a two-year government moratorium has since been extended indefinitely. Unfortunately, some foreign trawlers continue to overfish outside Canada's 200-mile protective limit. |
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| One then finds the odd situation that fleets that meet the MGP target but structurally overfish go unpunished, while fishing fleets that do not overfish are penalised because their engine capacity is too great. |
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| Locals overfish the pond with no fish left to breed. |
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| So long as politicians see fiscal profligacy as a prerequisite for re-election, the argument goes, they will postpone the hard decisions about tax hikes and spending cuts, and continue to overfish the revenue pool. |
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| Historically, there has always been enough salmon, as people would not overfish, and only took what they needed. |
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| Foreign ships take advantage of the opportunity to appropriate our resource, waste it and overfish it so that it is not there for us to use and to take advantage of. |
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| Fuel subsidies are important since the cost of diesel is a critical part of the calculus of how long a boat can remain at sea and remain profitable, and boats that remain at sea longer are more likely to overfish. |
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| It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. |
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| However, this practice is currently not feasible because the salmon fleet has so much fishing capacity that it might overfish the stock, especially if the stock is weaker than expected. |
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| The EU should therefore return fisheries policy to the Member States and see to it only that the Member States do not overfish species that move in more than one country's territorial waters. |
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| You will end up allowing fisheries on stocks that cannot take the fishery and you will overfish the resource under the present pilot sales program. |
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| We will not have to be concerned about the Russians coming into some of the areas just off the 200 mile limit to overfish our cod because there will simply be nothing there for them to fish. |
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| What are the penalties to foreigners who overfish? |
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| It was also noted that the technology for fishing had advanced to a point where it was now possible for large factory ships to overfish on a scale that never could have been done a generation ago. |
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| The Spanish continued to overfish. European nations continued to overfish. |
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