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Good news all.

 

It's official, there are loads of Bass in Guernsey so no need for conservation.

Our pair trawl team took a confirmed 28 tonnes in a single 2 hour long haul this

weekend.

 

With the bag limits proposed by SFC to conserve stock, I make that, at an

average of 2.5kg per fish (generous to say the least), 5,600 rod anglers taking

their max limit of bass from Guernsey waters under the proposed limits. Well if

there are 5,600 anglers coming to fish for bass in guernsey the tourist industry

can shout happy from the rooftops, they'll have never had it so good...

 

Not happy.

 

Andy

www.gbass.co.uk - The Guernsey Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society

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Good news all.

 

It's official, there are loads of Bass in Guernsey so no need for conservation.

Our pair trawl team took a confirmed 28 tonnes in a single 2 hour long haul this

weekend.

 

With the bag limits proposed by SFC to conserve stock, I make that, at an

average of 2.5kg per fish (generous to say the least), 5,600 rod anglers taking

their max limit of bass from Guernsey waters under the proposed limits. Well if

there are 5,600 anglers coming to fish for bass in guernsey the tourist industry

can shout happy from the rooftops, they'll have never had it so good...

 

Not happy.

 

Andy

 

28 Tonnes in 2 hours? I thought there was a limit of 5 tonnes a week? Does that mean they will now tie up for the next 6 weeks?

 

Now would be a good time to write to your MP, DEFRA, Ben Bradshaw, etc, and tell them what a joke their policy is. Go to the media and let everyone know what a nonsense the whole thing is, and how incompetent they all are.

DRUNK DRIVERS WRECK LIVES.

 

Don't drink and drive.

 

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5 tonnes per week or 15 per month, and the boats have to decide in advance. Last year they did 5 tonnes on one boat and 15 on the other, however the 5 tonne boat got 'stretched' in the autumn so I guess they're both on 15 tonnes now. So, no more bass in February for them, however they'll just go for bream instead, or maybe flatties on the banks. They had 12 tonnes of bass one day over xmas too, and the odd tonne here and there since apparently.

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5 tonnes per week or 15 per month, and the boats have to decide in advance. Last year they did 5 tonnes on one boat and 15 on the other, however the 5 tonne boat got 'stretched' in the autumn so I guess they're both on 15 tonnes now. So, no more bass in February for them, however they'll just go for bream instead, or maybe flatties on the banks. They had 12 tonnes of bass one day over xmas too, and the odd tonne here and there since apparently.

 

 

At the risk of sounding facetious what happens to any fish over the 5/15tonne limit if caught while fishing for other species?

 

As we all know that fish dont usually read white papers as they get all soggy when submerged!

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If I ever get the hang of it they'll bloody well ban it!

 

 

By the way anyone fancy sponsoring me in the WSOP?

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Doesn't the system operate on some ridiculous lines like being able to log a maximum allowable month's catch made on one day against the month up to that day (assuming they haven't fished for them in that month) and then go out the next day and do the same again and log it for the next month? A system that seems designed to encourage fishing for them when they are packed together for spawning.

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28 Tonnes in 2 hours? I thought there was a limit of 5 tonnes a week? Does that mean they will now tie up for the next 6 weeks?

 

Now would be a good time to write to your MP, DEFRA, Ben Bradshaw, etc, and tell them what a joke their policy is. Go to the media and let everyone know what a nonsense the whole thing is, and how incompetent they all are.

 

Hi Steve

 

No it means that they shoveled back 18 tons of dead large breeding bass, I think it might be called :headhurt: discards

 

steve

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Hi Steve

 

No it means that they shoveled back 18 tons of dead large breeding bass, I think it might be called :headhurt: discards

 

steve

Now if there was a simple gill tagging system in place they could land any amount they wanted to, too easy really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm ducking.

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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At the risk of sounding facetious what happens to any fish over the 5/15tonne limit if caught while fishing for other species?

They would get dumped, however these guys know what they're doing and either catch bass or bream, and nothing else. They're fishing 'pelagically' for the bass and bream when they come up in the water at night, and it's an 'all or nothing' kind of method, you either hit a shoal or hit nothing at all.

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