Would you consider a sea angling licence now?

[Mikec]

Although landings don't have to be declared, the new Registration of Buyers and Sellers legislation requires all sales of fish from a fishing vessel to be recorded, and the audit trail that produces gives a good idea of what is being landed by each boat.

 

That is giving real problems to the under 10m fleet, as evidenced in a letter to Fishing News last week bemoaning that before this 'under 10m boats have historically always caught a lot more fish than the government percieved'

 

The problem is that the quota that the under-10s are given is claimed to be insufficient to maintain the viability of running the boat, and now there is a way to identify boats that are exceeding their quota, and the amount of fish that the sector is landing, so that the fishery can be closed when the quota for the under 10m sector is exceeded.

 

Already you have in place a system that will penalise honest reporting. If we report all landings they close the fishery. Guess what will happen?

[smudgertoo]

hopefully you'll go out of business

[Mikec]

hopefully you'll go out of business

 

No wrong answer. We just keep netting 200 yrds off the shore in Hayling Bay and don't fill in the paperwork. Then read about how you never catch anything. Ha, Ha.

[Mikec]

MikeC,

 

I am personally in agreement with your comments regarding the enemy being the EU and the CFP.

However, your statement claiming that the under 10m fleet is 'insignificant' is absolute rubbish.

The success of a boat is not based on its size. The success of todays fishing boats is based on its technology and engine capacity.

DEFRA should consider changing the law concerning under 10m boats and in doing so make it compulsary for all registered commercial and recreational fishing boats to declare all catches - formally.

This current law excluding boats under 10m from declaring their catch is an extremely old and outdated law that was based on ancient (and long gone) marine fishing technology, and is no longer applicable to the current fishery or fishermen.

If the commercial fishermern are serious about conserving 'our' fish stocks then surely they would be willing to take such measures on board - no pun intended.

 

Regards

Steve

 

The success of any fishing boat is the skill of the skipper. Nothing else.

[seaside]

The success of any fishing boat is the skill of the skipper. Nothing else.

 

The availability of something to catch may make a contribution.

[smudgertoo]

No wrong answer. We just keep netting 200 yrds off the shore in Hayling Bay and don't fill in the paperwork. Then read about how you never catch anything. Ha, Ha.

 

absolutely no change there then is there

 

while were at it,, just where exactly are all these french boats ? only boats we see towing are small inshore boats about 100 yrds of hayling, mind your nets

[Mikec]

absolutely no change there then is there

 

while were at it,, just where exactly are all these french boats ? only boats we see towing are small inshore boats about 100 yrds of hayling, mind your nets

 

That's why they are 200 yards out. Any closer and the trawlers get them.

 

The French boats are in France.

[smudgertoo]

That's why they are 200 yards out. Any closer and the trawlers get them.

 

The French boats are in France.

 

 

thats funny,, I thought you and Steve Good said they were all stalking "you're" Bass along the six mile limit

[steve good]

Whilst talking about farmers they have 50% of the European budget spent on them. Subsidies for growing tabacco! They are paid not to farm areas. How about increasing the VAT on angling tackle and using the money for the under 10m fleet to stay at home for a couple of years.

 

This would produce many benefits. However, it would have little effect on inshore fish stocks because what the inshore fleet catches is so insignificant to what the French tow away (on the south coast at least).

 

Then anglers will finally see what the real enermy is - the European fisheries policy.

 

Hi Mikec

 

Well said.

 

Of course the pretenders of catch and release do not catch anything, therefore conservation does not apply to them.

 

400,000 sea anglers must catch 1000's of tons of fish a year, in my area they have wiped out all the wrecks and now they are over the channel islands creating havoc lol lol lol

 

regards steve

[sam-cox]

I would happerly pay several hundred pounds a year to buy commercial fishermen OUT!