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Do you want to support Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's campaign to change EEC Fish Quota rules?
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If you saw his programme last night and feel angry about thousands of tonnes of perfectly good fish having to be thrown back dead into the sea every day because EEC Fishing Quota rules have been exceeded, you can sign up here:
http://www.fishfight.net/
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Darn I missed the program. I was hoping to see how they were going to take the blame away from the fishermen.
Seems to me that if you have a quota, and experience tells you that you will catch x fish of that particular species after you've stopped trying to fish for it, then you should ensure you have caught x fish fewer than the quota when you stop and fish for some other species. I don't understand this attempt to blame the quota when the problem is mismanaging the catch.
It seems to me that thousands of tonnes of perfectly good fish having to be thrown back dead into the sea every day because some fool fished to the limit, and then cried crocodile tears when they caught more, as they knew they would.
Seems to me that if you have a quota, and experience tells you that you will catch x fish of that particular species after you've stopped trying to fish for it, then you should ensure you have caught x fish fewer than the quota when you stop and fish for some other species. I don't understand this attempt to blame the quota when the problem is mismanaging the catch.
It seems to me that thousands of tonnes of perfectly good fish having to be thrown back dead into the sea every day because some fool fished to the limit, and then cried crocodile tears when they caught more, as they knew they would.
Oh I fully approve of trying to bring variety. Problem is that folk often don't know how to cook something new. Or if they can make a guess, suspect they're being pawned off with something inferior. So they avoid it It's all in the marketing. The fishermen need knowledable folk on market stalls to educate the public. The food industry being more difficult to convince.
Hugh Fernley eat it all knows naff all about fishing .A couple of trips on a fishing boat does not a fisherman make unlike my Dad who rocked around the North Sea for much of his life so people could have fish for dinner .
I live down the road from what was once one of the biggest herring ports in the country .If they had,had quotas back then the industry wouldn't have declined until we now have one trawler left in a port where once you could walk across the river on the boats .
Overfishing depletes fish stock and they take a long time to recover Hence the decline in herring fishing .
As Old_Geezer states it's mismanagement of the catch .
When my Dad went to sea any odds and sods that came up in the nets were sold at the fish market if only to go for pet food or fertiliser . They never threw anything back .I used to eat lobster as a child for nowt along with more herrings than I care to mention :)
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I live down the road from what was once one of the biggest herring ports in the country .If they had,had quotas back then the industry wouldn't have declined until we now have one trawler left in a port where once you could walk across the river on the boats .
Overfishing depletes fish stock and they take a long time to recover Hence the decline in herring fishing .
As Old_Geezer states it's mismanagement of the catch .
When my Dad went to sea any odds and sods that came up in the nets were sold at the fish market if only to go for pet food or fertiliser . They never threw anything back .I used to eat lobster as a child for nowt along with more herrings than I care to mention :)
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squarebear
"The fishermen should be fined for catching and throwing dead fish overboard once they have reached their quota"
All that fish is thrown away because the EU says to....they set the quotas,and anything over must be discarded. It's the Common Fisheries Policy,and there is a move to reform it.
Of course-what's being discarded is dead-so there is less breeding-which in turn means less fish=higher prices for what fish there is.
"The fishermen should be fined for catching and throwing dead fish overboard once they have reached their quota"
All that fish is thrown away because the EU says to....they set the quotas,and anything over must be discarded. It's the Common Fisheries Policy,and there is a move to reform it.
Of course-what's being discarded is dead-so there is less breeding-which in turn means less fish=higher prices for what fish there is.
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