Well done Tesco

[John S]

I got on here too late to do anything about the earlier remarks, the damage had already been done. My comments were directed at everyone in an attempt to get this thread back on track

[steve good]

The organisation that has taken the high street by storm by identifying consumer needs is now selling wild bass, table sized at a premium price of £13.95/kg against farmed at about £8kg.

 

Well done Tesco.

 

So much to no premium for wild fish and farmed displacing them. Another example of the lack of understanding of the market and misinformation of the campaigners to increase the bass size limit.

 

hi mikec

 

thats not the case

 

people no longer want that farmed bass tesco have seen that and now theyy are cashing in bigtime. fishermen only get a third of that price

 

steve

[steve good]

£30,000 for a licence Mike? What sort of licence do you have? Come to that, exactly what sort of commercial licence costs £30,000? Are you getting confused with quota? Or maybe you've included the price of a boat in with that figure?

 

From comments of yours I've read on other forums, (where you also love to wind people up), I took it that you were just a part time netter, or odd bod as they are known around here.

 

hi steve

 

i have allways been against licences

 

the cost of licences is preventing nippers from becomeing fishermen

 

licences will be and are destroying the fishing industry i think it is part of the plan

 

the days that everbody had the same right to do something has long gone

 

THATS WHY THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN THE PAN

 

regards steve

[Sharkbyte]

Who sets the price? They were bloody free man!

 

Seems like fishermen are ****ing each other over from where I'm sitting.

[Jaffa]

Who sets the price? They were bloody free man!

 

Seems like fishermen are ****ing each other over from where I'm sitting.

 

They were put onto the open market. Can't say i've noticed many ex council house selling at what the original tennants paid for them

 

All I know is that when i was twenty, had i the skill and inclination, i could have bought a small boat (much as i guess Wurzel did) and been free to fish as my ability allowed. Now a 20 yr old would need to get the finance for a licence.

 

This is a one way ticket to all licences and quota ending up in the hands of large corparations and the destruction of coastal communities.

 

The Shetlanders tried to buy quota and hold it locally through the council; issusing it to young skippers to get them started. the scheme was dropped because, as i understand it, it fell foul of EU law.

[wurzel]

Hello Jaffa

 

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All I know is that when i was twenty, had i the skill and inclination, i could have bought a small boat (much as i guess Wurzel did) and been free to fish as my ability allowed. Now a 20 yr old would need to get the finance for a licence

 

Spot on.

 

Hello Sharkbyte

 

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Who sets the price? They were bloody free man!

 

Seems like fishermen are ****ing each other over from where I'm sitting.

 

 

Quite often the licence has like quota to be bought from a trader not another fishermen.

[Leon Roskilly]

Quite often the licence has like quota to be bought from a trader not another fishermen.

 

 

'Quota Kings' !!

 

 

Not just in the UK

 

See: http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.p...ota_system.html