Men det skal påpeges, at beskyttelsen af ressourcerne ikke er noget gyldigt argument, for så vidt som Den Europæiske Union altid har erklæret, at den aldrig har tilladt overskridelse af de fangstmængder for 1995, der enstemmigt er vedtaget i NAFO, dvs. 27 000 tons hellefisk.
It has for one thing to be pointed out that the protection of slocks is not a valid argument in so far as the European Union has always said that it would never approve exceeding the catch limits sel for 1995 and unanimously adopted by NAFO, that is 27 000 tonnes of Greenland halibut.