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  1. 1. Do you eat cod?

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    • Try not to!
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barry luxton Member

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I voted yes, however i would never purchace from a wet fish counter as most of it looks old and tired.

At present there is an increase in the amount of codling and small cod showing in the channel. We don't want a free all, no disrespects but it needs to stay there for as long as possible for all to benifit. If they could stay there for a couple of more years then the stocks have a good chance of recovery to an acceptable level for all. Moving away from crises management would be a good thing.

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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Vagabond Member

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I don't. I love fish and make paella almost once a week. I substitute the cod for haddock. All fish/shellfish eaten in our house is caught locally.

 

"Locally" ? So where are these haddock caught? I thought haddock stocks off W Scotland (the nearest location that I know of) were even more pressured than cod.

 

I eat any cod that I catch (subject to a self-imposed slot limit of 2lb to 10 lb and a bag limit of two fish per trip) There were plenty of baby cod around in 2006 (and a lot of pounders around the Solent this last 2007 winter) so they should be coming through as takeable fish next winter. Don't believe all you read about cod "shortages"

 

As for buying fish, Icelandic cod, hake and haddock stocks are (so the Icelanders tell us) sustainable, so we buy those.

 

The idea that pollack and ling stocks are "sustainable" is somewhat naive. They are only "sustainable" because very few people eat them. Put the same commercial pressure on pollack as on cod and stock levels would soon suffer.

 

My local wild trout stocks are "sustainable" - but only because their location is known to but few, (and their capture achieved by even fewer) and I am careful not to overharvest them.

 

 

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Ken L Member

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Yep.

EU stocks have been hammered but there are still plenty of fish in waters controlled by Iceland and Norway.

With no way to distinguish the origin of most fish sold, I have no way to make an informed choice and I'm not about to stop supporting the economies of those countries that harvest sustainably to show my disaproval for the way the EU mismanages things.

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Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

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Elton Member

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Quick bit of info for those who buy fish from supermarkets.

 

My mate is a shipping consultant, specialising in the Baltics. He was tellling me about a lot of our 'fresh' fish the other day.

 

A lot of it is caught in Icelandic waters. Obviously, it stays on the trawler for at least a couple of days.

 

It is then shipped to England - about 4 more days.

 

Once on land, it is sorted, repackaged and then shipped to China for processing.

 

It is then shipped back and distributed to supermarket warehouses by road.

 

It is then taken and delivered to your local store.

 

Yum - glad I don't eat fish :D

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barry luxton Member

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Quick bit of info for those who buy fish from supermarkets.

 

I feel very sorry for the people who have to. It's rubbish and it should be sold as fertiliser. The mackerel look grey as do the bass, the, errr cod comes from far and wide. What makes me laugh is quite often i see the guys who work the counters give it yet another dusting of water to make it look 'real'. Why should the general public have to put up with this cr@p is beyond me. Is it too much to ask for local boats to supply local outlets?

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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The idea that pollack and ling stocks are "sustainable" is somewhat naive. They are only "sustainable" because very few people eat them. Put the same commercial pressure on pollack as on cod and stock levels would soon suffer.

 

I like being naive, it makes me happy.

 

Any under utilised wild food source is about as sustainable as wild food gets, when pollack supplies get as low as cod then we'll all start eating carp.

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Guest tigger

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Yeah I eat Cod and as Medwaygreen and myself said in another thread when cooked and batterd with chips,peas and gravy it's gotta be the pretiest fish of all especially when your hungry.

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Darren T Member

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i do like a bit of cod. but in our place the most common takeaway is chinese so i might only have 6 peices of cod a year.

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