Translation of "poisson blanc " (French → English) :

For a number of whitefish species, for example, average first-sale prices stagnated or even decreased between 2000 and the first half of 2005 (see Annex 5).

4. By way of derogation from Article 1, Finland and Sweden may authorise until 31 December 2011 the placing on their market of salmon (Salmo salar), herring (Clupea harengus), river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis), trout (Salmo trutta), char (Salvelinus spp.) and roe of vendace (Coregonus albula) originating in the Baltic region and intended for consumption in their territory with levels of dioxins and/or levels of the sum of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs higher than those set out in point 5.3 of the Annex, provided that a system is in place to ensure that consumers are fully informed of the dietary recommendations with regard to the restrictions on the consumption of these fish species from the Bal ...[+++]tic region by identified vulnerable sections of the population in order to avoid potential health risks.

As long ago as March, when we had the resolution on the white fish sector, Parliament called on the budgetary authority to draw up a plan for allocating EUR 150 million to compensate for the losses sustained by coastal communities as a consequence of the crisis in white fish stocks.

E. whereas the Council of Agriculture Ministers at their meeting in December 2002 decided, nevertheless, to adopt proposals for short-term measures which will have a drastic impact on jobs in the EU whitefish sector,

5. Calls upon the Commission and the Council to adopt more sophisticated long-term conservation measures which, while offering the prospect of cod recovery, would also secure the maximum number of jobs in the EU whitefish sector;

– The next item is the oral question (O-0003/2003 – B5-0084/2003) to the Commission, by Mr Stevenson, on behalf of the Committee on Fisheries, on the socio-economic crisis in the white fish sector.