Lögberg-Heimskringla - 19.04.1991, Page 3

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 19. apríl 1991 • 3
“Icelanders have fought many
cod wars, and now we are engaged
in another — a financial cod war.
Neither the British nor any others
were able to keep their fishing ships
in our jurisdiction under protection
of warships, and we cannot allow
these parties to succeed now in
efforts to get a hold on our common
national resource by letting Ice-
landers harvest fish which is then
exported and processed abroad,”
said Icelandic Freezing Plants Cor-
poration (IFPC) managing director
Friðrik Pálsson at a recent conference
on the future of the domestic fish
processing industry held by the Union
of Fisheries Technicians.
Reported in fisheries publication
Fiskifréttir, the conference expressed
its concern over possible large-
scale unemployment in the sector
in 5-10 years, citing what it feels to be
unfair control of fish resources by
vessel operators and economic
pressure by the EC aimed at
acquiring unprocessed Icelandic
fish.
EC subsidies and grants to home
fishing and fish processing sectors —
which domestic processors claim give
their European counterparts an unfair
advantage in bidding on raw material
for processing, among others — were
the subject of heated discussion at the
conference. According to National
Economic Institute economist Asgeir
Daníelsson, the 18% tariffleviedby the
EC on fillets processed in Iceland
amounted to taxation of the Icelandic
processing industry which was sub-
sequentlymitigated somewhatby. high
prices to fishermen for unprocessed
catches.
Export levies on unprocessed Ice-
landic fish would be a natural way of
putting the domestic processing indus-
try on equal footing with processors in
EC countries, said Danielsson, with
Palsson supporting the economist’s
view and adding that such levies would
have to be 42% to counterbalance the
deleterious effect of the 18% imposed
by the EC.
The number of workers employed
in domestic processing has declined
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from 12,000 to 9,000 over the pastfew
years, it was reported, with the con-
traction due in part to streamlining
efforts and reduced catches. At the
same time, the conference placed
major emphasis on the formulation of
a comprehensive marine resources
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needs of both processors and fisher-
men, while seeking to eliminate the
current unfair competitive stance en-
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