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See:

 

http://pacnews.blogspot.com/

 

 

Hmmmm! If the wording doesn't specifically restrict the measures to freshwater only, it could be that the use of livebait when sea fishing could also be included, albeit not intentionally (or maybe so!).

 

 

Part three - fisheries

I thank the Committee for their recommendation that the Executive brings forward an amendment at Stage 2 to prohibit the use of live vertebrates as bait. I can confirm that we shall do so.

 

Does anyone know?

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See:

 

http://pacnews.blogspot.com/

Hmmmm! If the wording doesn't specifically restrict the measures to freshwater only, it could be that the use of livebait when sea fishing could also be included, albeit not intentionally (or maybe so!).

Does anyone know?

 

Just received this off the exec

 

As head of the Bill team, I am replying to your e-mail below to David Dunkley about the proposed ban on the use of live vertebrates as bait.

 

The exact wording of the proposed amendment is yet to be finalised and it won't be laid until January. However, I would like to reassure you that this provision is intended to apply to freshwater fisheries only. There is no intention on the part of the Scottish Executive that this prohibition should extend to sea angling.

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Just received this off the exec

 

As head of the Bill team, I am replying to your e-mail below to David Dunkley about the proposed ban on the use of live vertebrates as bait.

 

The exact wording of the proposed amendment is yet to be finalised and it won't be laid until January. However, I would like to reassure you that this provision is intended to apply to freshwater fisheries only. There is no intention on the part of the Scottish Executive that this prohibition should extend to sea angling.

 

 

We need to ensure that the wording is quite specific.

 

There are plenty that would gleefully use any ambiguity to ensure that a 'blanket' ban would be applied to the use of all livebaiting, including sea angling.

 

(We had a close escape with the Animal Welfare Bill, because of some sloppy wording and the fact that those drawing up the bill didn't realise that fish too are invertebrates!)

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We need to ensure that the wording is quite specific.

 

There are plenty that would gleefully use any ambiguity to ensure that a 'blanket' ban would be applied to the use of all livebaiting, including sea angling.

 

(We had a close escape with the Animal Welfare Bill, because of some sloppy wording and the fact that those drawing up the bill didn't realise that fish too are invertebrates!)

 

 

I think you will find fish are vertebrates whilst worms, crustacea, molluscs are invertebrates. Sorry will now go and get coat as am becoming pedantic old git.

Out of many things I enjoy in life, those that start with an F tend to feature the most.

 

Plea to save our fish. Please visit http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Seafishstocks/ and sign it if you agree.

 

The one on the right is Trubshaw, the one on the left is Teal.

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Sorry will now go and get coat as am becoming pedantic old git.

now, now Henry, less of the old. :thumbs:

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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We need to ensure that the wording is quite specific.

 

There are plenty that would gleefully use any ambiguity to ensure that a 'blanket' ban would be applied to the use of all livebaiting, including sea angling.

 

(We had a close escape with the Animal Welfare Bill, because of some sloppy wording and the fact that those drawing up the bill didn't realise that fish too are invertebrates!)

 

Leon

 

He did add in his email

 

"I will forward you the draft amendment when it is laid in Parliament next year."

www.ssacn.org

 

www.tagsharks.com

 

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The coarse fishing industry contributes up to £7 million a year to the Scottish economy. Ron Woods, a policy officer from the Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling, said: "This will hurt fishing tourism."

 

But Yvonne Taylor, from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the ban was a "massive first step" in the group's fight for one in the rest of Britain.

 

 

Full story in today's Telegraph

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...07/nangle07.xml

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