European Parliament
Seán Kelly  (PPE ).
(GA)
Mr President, I, too, was happy to back this report and we had a very good debate on this in Parliament two days ago.
Undoubtedly, we have a major problem – not only in Europe but globally – because the demand for fish is rising and many of the stocks are falling. Therefore, we must be very careful, as we see from this report.
The solution to the problem it is to be found in aquaculture and I would like to see a lot more emphasis on that in future. My own country is considering creating aquaculture, and that is a good thing. However, for the next MFF (multiannual financial framework), we should provide money to establish aquaculture around Europe and that will go a long way towards solving our current problem.

