Bradshaw fouls up.

[Steve Coppolo]

So the new MLS for bass will be 40cm. What a cop out.

 

The new MLS benefits no one and is typical of the sort of decision made by this government. What a load of rubbish.

[Steve Coppolo]

So anglers gain nothing. A 40cm bass is no better to catch than a 36cm bass. The commercials lose out because the French can still catch them at 36cm, which was their main gripe about increasing the MLS. But most of all the bass lose out. Bradshaw acknowledges that bass don't even begin to spawn until they reach 42cm, yet he's happy to set the MLS at 40cm. What an ****.

 

Well they can stick their sea angling licence right up their arse.

Edited August 10, 2006 by Steve Coppolo

[Holmesy]

Gutted.

[Steve Coppolo]

And he has the gaul to say that they are still going to look at bag limits for anglers.

 

This is a complete kick up the ****s for sea anglers.

[Sharkbyte]

Cop out!

 

Any mesh size changes?

[MJB]

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2006/060810a.htm

[Steve Coppolo]

90mm to 100mm.

 

They might just as well have left it at 36cm for what good it'll do.

 

I hope that all sea anglers and, more importantly, their representative bodies will give Bradshaw all the stick he deserves. NO to bag limits. NO to sea angling licences.

 

Not good enough Bradshaw. Why not be a complete coward and leave it at 36cm?

[Sharkbyte]

Get this!

 

The South West Federation of Sea Anglers which states that it represents some 25 clubs and 2500 members proposed that the mls remain the same saying bass stocks were healthy and more double figure bass were landed by it's members in 2005 than the previous 7 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

With friends like these, who...................UNBELIEVABLE

[Steve Coppolo]

So phase two of the Bass Management Plan is now well and truly dead in the water. Don't forget that the original proposal was for 55cm. The 45cm was a compromise , get this, proposed not by DEFRA but our sea angling representative bodies!!!!

 

Now Bradshaw isn't going to look at the MLS until 2010, when there will be abother review about whether to increase it to 45cm. There won't be any bass worth worrying about by then, and there certainly won't be a labour government, so that's all ****s.

[ColinW]

I find it quite incredible that the sea fisheries committees were allowed an opinion, needless to say what that opinion was. Surely SFCs are supposed to be unbiased? If nothing else this exercise has demonstrated exactly which side of the fence the SFCs sit, as if we didn't know. Don't forget these SFCs are financed by us, via local government, THEY ARE NOT FINANCED BY THE COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN THEY REPRESENT.