The attached link makes some disgusting reading both from the action it records to the non-response.

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I would sack the lady in question ( OK so I don't want to close the topic before it starts )

Have to say the fish look like mullet to me.

This post has been edited by Ken Davison South Wales: Apr 6 2008, 11:06 PM

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Wurzel

Knowing how I wait on your every word (commercials know best, don't they?), what are you trying to say or are you also speechless about the report?

Perhaps you come across this sort of thing everyday in Wurzeland?










Personally I think any 'fishing method', which includes in its by-catch sea birds and other fauna, should be outlawed completely.

Not sure what you'd sack her for ken? refusing to come out to what she had told the guy who was phoning was a legally placed net because she already had a prebooked meeting/interview with the bbc, hardly a sackable offence in my book.

Does that include angling as i've seen sea birds tangled in discarded monofil left by anglers (I've even seen gulls take a surface lure being used to spin for bass and then have to be hauled in and unhooked). and before you have a go no i'm not a commercial fisherman, i just think people in glass houses should be wary about throwing stones ( there are irresponsible people in all walks of life)

If you want to make beach netting illegal then start some campaign to do so but you cant criticise the sfc for doing their job, which in this instance they were. If SFC policy was for their employees to speak their own mind - they would probably tell you to mind your own business.

The point I was making Ha was that on another thread the practice of stake netting was regarded as sustainable.
I'm gad you've realised that commercials know best when it comes to commercial fishing.

A by catch of sea birds is a very rare occurrence in Wurzelland and I can't remember the last time .
I recon I've killed more wild life with the van travelling to work than I ever have with the nets I use, the country road leading down to where the boat is kept is particularly bad for it, nobody’s ever suggested it should be closed off to protect the local wild life.

For what it's worth I consider that form of fishing a crap method mostly carried out by cowboys and part-timers, although there is a stake net fishery that has just obtained MSC accreditation some where around the Humber which should mean that it is carried out responsibly and would not have been awarded if there was a unacceptable by catch of wild life.
I would have thought with in the enabling by law or licence conditions the nets would have to be attended to at the earliest opportunity on the receding tide.
Any responsible fisherman would be on hand kitted out with chest waders waiting to get his catch from the net and to his market as soon as possible in the best condition possible, not sun dried and mutilated by sea gulls.

No Ha I'll concede to you on this one, it's crap and needs sorting out, if it's allowed by the local bylaws then it needs to meet certain criteria and then enforced and properly policed by the local FC.

Suggestions on WSF that people should "cut up the net" are completely out of order.
Just cut the rope holding one end to the beach and let the tide do the rest

So it gets washed out to sea killing more fish and other animals for years to come, now that is a clever move

w urzel was right [cowboys] that is,nt how we make a living and we rarely catch birds and the like.a lot of these nets im sorry to say are put down by immigrants and the like after they stole them of the beach ,pots as well dissapear[lobster] and they dont worry about undersize;discards they eat it all.there are bylaws but they dont no them and they dont care annyway.sorry to upset any one but thats how it is very close to us.