Eels In The Financial Times

[Elton]

More on eels here.

[Sharkbyte]

More on eels here.

 

 

The simplest way to help eels might be just to stop fishing for them. But that would remove the political imperative that underlies the rescue plan. Instead, the fishing season has been curtailed and quotas have been set to limit the quantities of glass eels that can be shipped to Asia. But while trawlers might well be taking a toll, Stone says the British eel fishing industry, which is restricted to dip nets, does little damage: “As long as it's small and controlled it is beneficial, because if you don't have commercial fishing, we couldn't bid for European fisheries funding.”

 

 

 

In light of the absurd ban on anglers retaining eels, should they wish, it is worth repeating this bit!

 

 

"As long as it's small and controlled it is beneficial, because if you don't have commercial fishing, we couldn't bid for European fisheries funding."”

 

Heidi Stone - Environment Agency.

 

 

 

 

I think that poncing about with eels, including sticking tags in them, should be classed as commercial fishing.

Edited March 28, 2010 by Sharkbyte

[barry luxton]

In light of the absurd ban on anglers retaining eels, should they wish, it is worth repeating this bit!

 

 

"As long as it's small and controlled it is beneficial, because if you don't have commercial fishing, we couldn't bid for European fisheries funding."”

 

Heidi Stone - Environment Agency.

 

 

 

 

I think that poncing about with eels, including sticking tags in them, should be classed as commercial fishing.

 

The E U, Defra, the EA and all the hangers on (you know who you are) have spent more than a decade of shuffling paper and dealing with this, to date they are still poncing about as confirmed with the rsa ban. Disgusting and pathetic. A whole industry of crisis management, dealing with the paperwork has failed The eel stock.The paper shuffling worked as it's still going ongoing. All should be soooooo proud.

[Jaffa]

You could not make it up.

 

Nobody knows what going on with the eels (fact), but we now have have bans,restrictions and a new industry of Eel regulation, enforcement and promotion consuming money to what end?

 

Money is being pumped into the "problem" even though it might not be a problem at all; it could be due to anything from Harry potter to some minute change in ocean currents. Who knows but lets legislate anyway

[Steve Coppolo]

More on eels here.

 

 

Eels in the Financial Times?

 

Oh well, makes a change from Cod & Chips in the News of the World, I suppose.

[Steve Coppolo]

You could not make it up.

 

Nobody knows what going on with the eels (fact), but we now have have bans,restrictions and a new industry of Eel regulation, enforcement and promotion consuming money to what end?

 

Money is being pumped into the "problem" even though it might not be a problem at all; it could be due to anything from Harry potter to some minute change in ocean currents. Who knows but lets legislate anyway

 

 

It's not just fisheries and global warming, either. It's every aspect of our lives. Every week a well funded scientist, somewhere, discovers that X, Y or Z is bad for us and will give us cancer. The next week, another equally well funded scientist tells us that X, Y or Z is actually good for us, but A, B or C will give us cancer.

 

At one time, parents used to tell their kids to, "Get a trade." Then, it was, "Get a degree." Now, the best advice you could give your kids would be, "Become a scientists. It's a licence to print money."

[arbocop]

It's not just fisheries and global warming, either. It's every aspect of our lives. Every week a well funded scientist, somewhere, discovers that X, Y or Z is bad for us and will give us cancer. The next week, another equally well funded scientist tells us that X, Y or Z is actually good for us, but A, B or C will give us cancer.

 

At one time, parents used to tell their kids to, "Get a trade." Then, it was, "Get a degree." Now, the best advice you could give your kids would be, "Become a scientists. It's a licence to print money."

 

 

I think that most scientists - particularly ecologists, biologists and marine biologists earn sod all. It's our hunger for news that drives them to be misquoted. Every now and then you get a story, and a few papers will print it correctly, the rest clammer for scraps or counter stories to make a new take on things, misquoting or intepreting the science in their own way.

 

Only medical scientists are well funded, or something else that has a return on the investors cash. Marine science is scarcely funded at all.

Edited March 30, 2010 by arbocop

[Steve Coppolo]

I think that most scientists - particularly ecologists, biologists and marine biologists earn sod all. It's our hunger for news that drives them to be misquoted. Every now and then you get a story, and a few papers will print it correctly, the rest clammer for scraps or counter stories to make a new take on things, misquoting or intepreting the science in their own way.

 

Only medical scientists are well funded, or something else that has a return on the investors cash. Marine science is scarcely funded at all.

 

I accept that the science is often misquoted in newspapers, but I can't understand why policy is built around some of the other rubbish that scientists often churn out.