12/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a press release, the Lega Pesca speaks of “bad omens” for the Community fisheries policy in the months to come, with the important dossiers on the Plan for the Mediterranean, European Fisheries Fund (EFF) and “Borg's crisis plan”. The Italian organisation is unhappy that several proposals for Mediterranean fisheries have been ignored and stresses that for the EFF “the most urgent necessities remain”: notably, doubling spending on port infrastructure, developing new markets and modifying fishing vessels for new activities, adopting socio-economic measures to lessen the impact of the Mediterranean Plan. As for the package launched by Commissioner Borg to deal with increased oil prices, the Lega Pesca is unconvinced, because it “puts forward ordinary measures to deal with an emergency of an extraordinary nature”, based “only on the decommissioning of the existing fleet”, when there should, for example, be a Development Agency for the sector to allow companies to access funding, plan bank loans to help restructuring with a view to new activities.