Depressing video: British Trawler "Prolific" dumps catch

[luckyjim]

The Norwegian Coastguard has released video of the British trawler "The Prolific" (the irony ) dumping tonnes of endangered fish into British waters.

 

View the video here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/vide...rawler.prolific

 

From the comments I have read from British commercial fishermen, I was under the impression it was only the French and Spanish who were callously plundering our marine resources...

[SandTiger]

The Norwegian Coastguard has released video of the British trawler "The Prolific" (the irony ) dumping tonnes of endangered fish into British waters.

 

View the video here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/vide...rawler.prolific

 

From the comments I have read from British commercial fishermen, I was under the impression it was only the French and Spanish who were callously plundering our marine resources...

 

What is your problem Jim? It all seems perfectly legal within CFP guidelines which encourage discards? They were acting within the law or facing a £50,000 fine for each offence of landing perfectly edible fish that were outwith quota

[H.A.]

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Edited January 26, 2009 by H.A.

[SandTiger]

Tonight Shetland Fishermen’s Association chief executive Hansen Black said the Prolific crew had no choice but to dump their catch.

 

“He was fishing in the Norwegian sector when he caught a shot of saithe. He didn’t have a quota for it so he couldn’t retain it on board, he couldn’t dump it in the Norwegian sector. The only thing he could legally do was go outside Norwegian waters and discard the fish,” Mr Black said.

 

He added the two boats had steamed 100 miles away in search of a mixed fishery, hoping not to land any more saithe.

 

http://www.shetlandmarine.com/2008/02%20Fi...ing_footage.htm

[SandTiger]

Jim - you, me, H.A. and all those others involved share an equal concern about how our fisheries works or doesn't work. The prolific incident is not acceptable but we have to look at the wider picture if we have any hope in tackling it. Most anglers have very little understanding of commercial fisheries beyond the knee-jerk reactions, maybe if we all try to understand this crazy system then we might start to move forward?

 

Interesting discussion here at the mo - http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/show...ad.php?t=157370

[big_cod]

Jim - you, me, H.A. and all those others involved share an equal concern about how our fisheries works or doesn't work. The prolific incident is not acceptable but we have to look at the wider picture if we have any hope in tackling it. Most anglers have very little understanding of commercial fisheries beyond the knee-jerk reactions, maybe if we all try to understand this crazy system then we might start to move forward?

 

Interesting discussion here at the mo - http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/show...ad.php?t=157370

 

Very true sandtiger the quota for commercial fishermen is a farce and now they have decided to include charterboats into the farce and what will be gained by it nothing .

 

paul.