Brussels, 30/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Parliament organised a hearing devoted to the cod crisis in which the chair of the Parliamentary Fisheries Committee, British Conservative Struan Stevenson, said that he was preparing a resolution (to be examined in March) demanding 150 million euro in aid for the communities affected. This meeting enabled representatives of the fisheries sector to comment, at time virulently, on the decisions taken by the Council in December last to reduce the fishing of cod and related species. The fishermen accused the Commission of having built its strategy of mistaken scientific data and of not having sufficiently consulted the sector. The Commission representative recalled that the scientists had called for a total ban on cod fishing, but that this idea had been discarded precisely because of the socio-economic fall-out.