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| | Fisheries Policy - Scottish Enterprise Party |
 | | The Scottish fleet, and particularly the white fish or demersal fleet, has suffered the greatest damage, being reduced to a rump of its former self, while the EU has continued to support the growth and modernisation of the huge Spanish fleet, by numerous hidden subsidies and assistance for its distant water operations. |
 | | Scottish vessels working legally for deep water species to the west and north-west, saw the EU apply a new quota system to that stock, and give it all to Spanish vessels, with a smaller amount to the French fleet. |
 | | And yet, that same EU claimed that Scots vessels with an annual demersal catch of about half what was discarded, was the guilty party in the decline of North Sea stocks. |
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