Fishing nets ban to protect birds

[Phone]

Bob,

 

The BBC indicates """Thursday after the deaths of more than 100 seabirds...."""

 

The CIFCA implies in related articles multiple craft are involved in "more than 200 birds" with some washing ashore. Doesn't change anything just trying to clairfy my ignorance.

 

Phone

[Bob Shotter]

Bob,

 

The BBC indicates """Thursday after the deaths of more than 100 seabirds...."""

 

The CIFCA implies in related articles multiple craft are involved in "more than 200 birds" with some washing ashore. Doesn't change anything just trying to clairfy my ignorance.

 

Phone

 

 

Hi Phone I can only tell you that what I have reported in post 47 and 49 are quotes directly from the Chief Officer in a phone call we had yesterday.

[captain cojones]

4. Looking at the stock as a whole the fish numbers of fry will drop dramatically, mortality will reduce as the size increases and at the current mls 37.5 cm (12.25 inches) the population will have few predators with man posing the biggest threat and

 

Not quite sure why you have to convert CM to Inches, but if you do, you need to get it right. 37.5cm is 15 inches not 12.

[Phone]

Thanks Bob,

 

The BBC and the CIFCA while reporting the same incident have a quite different "press release" don't they. I guess this incident(s) will change page 26 of this document?

 

http://www.cornwall-ifca.gov.uk/sitedata/M...l_Plan_2011.pdf

[barry luxton]

http://www.cornwall-ifca.gov.uk/sitedata/M...l_Plan_2011.pdf

 

thanks for that link phone, very helpful in another muscus membrane discussion i have elsewhere, so with your permission, i'm nicking it.

[Bob Shotter]

Hi Phone, as you may know all IFCAs are reviewing byelaws and we have subcommittee of which I’m a part to do just that, this bye law was reviewed at our last meeting in December so it was before these incidents. I’m sure it will be discussed at our next meeting before our recommendations are put to the full committee.

 

Hi Captain Conjones You are indeed quite right 37.5 = 15inches my mistake; however you must realise a good many of us older Englishmen still use feet and inches.

[wurzel]

Hi Captain Conjones You are indeed quite right 37.5 = 15inches my mistake; however you must realise a good many of us older Englishmen still use feet and inches.

 

Hello Bob

 

The MLS for bass is 36 cm = 14 3/16 which normaly relates to a fish of 1 1/4 LB.

[Bob Shotter]

Hello Bob

 

The MLS for bass is 36 cm = 14 3/16 which normaly relates to a fish of 1 1/4 LB.

 

 

Hi Wurzel

 

The MLS for Bass is not uniform, different bylaw sizes have been set around the country, here in Cornwall it is 37.5cm whereas the national mls is set at 35cm?

 

B.A.S.S. have asked the Southern IFCA to look at introducing an MLS of 48cm which QUOTE ‘Should the Southern IFCA decide to move to increase the Minimum Landing Size for bass, as we suggest, B.A.S.S. would work to encourage other IFCA’s to follow your lead.’

http://ukbass.com/2011/11/10/southern-ifca...n-the-bass-mls/

[wurzel]

Hi Wurzel

 

The MLS for Bass is not uniform, different bylaw sizes have been set around the country, here in Cornwall it is 37.5cm whereas the national mls is set at 35cm?

 

B.A.S.S. have asked the Southern IFCA to look at introducing an MLS of 48cm which QUOTE ‘Should the Southern IFCA decide to move to increase the Minimum Landing Size for bass, as we suggest, B.A.S.S. would work to encourage other IFCA’s to follow your lead.’

http://ukbass.com/2011/11/10/southern-ifca...n-the-bass-mls/

 

Hello Bob

 

The MLS for bass is uniform at 36 cm.

 

The Cornish IFCA can have a bylaw stating a MLS of 37.5 for their area which is only up to 6 miles from the shore,1.5 cm is not enough to make much difference and I suspect it suits the local fishermen's methods of fishing.Is there a minimum gill net mesh size bylaw?

But if a fisherman says he caught fish 36cm outside of 6 miles it would be hard to prove otherwise, in this area where I fish bass are caught anywhere up to 30 miles from shore.

 

B.A.S.S failed miserably last time and I suspect will again, the arguments for and against have all been done before .

[Bob Shotter]

Hello Bob

 

The MLS for bass is uniform at 36 cm.

 

The Cornish IFCA can have a bylaw stating a MLS of 37.5 for their area which is only up to 6 miles from the shore,1.5 cm is not enough to make much difference and I suspect it suits the local fishermen's methods of fishing.Is there a minimum gill net mesh size bylaw?

But if a fisherman says he caught fish 36cm outside of 6 miles it would be hard to prove otherwise, in this area where I fish bass are caught anywhere up to 30 miles from shore.

 

B.A.S.S failed miserably last time and I suspect will again, the arguments for and against have all been done before .

 

Hi Wurzel The Cornish do indeed have mesh sizes for specific areas like the Maniacal Rocks and the Runnel Stone both prolific Bass areas, indeed the county has more byelaws than most. They are going to look at passage byelaw also so any fish/lobster/crab will be deemed to have been caught in the district though ATS will play a part for those genuinely returning fish from further afield.

 

IMPO until the effort in areas where the species gather as a part of their breading is addressed then any other regulation is futile.