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AT LAST, AN END TO EU SCANDAL OF THROWING FISH BACK INTO THE SEA

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BRITAIN backed radical reform of the EU’s “fundamentally broken” Common Fisheries Policy yesterday.

 

EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki is expected this week to announce international trading of fishing rights and a phased end to “discards” – throwing back fish dead because the trawlers have exceeded their quota. In the North Sea, up to 75 per cent of fish are discarded with disastrous consequences. The reform will come after UK waters have been so overfished they supply the nation for little more than six months a year, forcing Britain to import the rest of its requirement. Fisheries minister Richard Benyon called yesterday for an end to discards and for greater regional control of fisheries instead of “micromanagement” from Brussels.

 

Ms Damanaki faces opposition from within the industry and from politicians who like using annual fish quotas for hard bargaining. The head of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Bertie Armstrong, said: “This reform ought to be seismic stuff. We are hoping for realistic regionalisation. “The problem has always been the EU’s one-size-fits-all approach controlled from Brussels. We are hoping for proper decentralisation.

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Chi dorme non piglia pesci

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Don't be too cheerful re this news, according to some it will take at least two years for the eu to complete arguing with it's members before anything will come to fruision, then it will take a few more years to see if the 'new' plan is working or not. :rolleyes:

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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