catch ten , throw back nine

[Tom Pinborough]

Hi all

 

Good piece in todays Times on pages 34-35 “First catch ten fish then throw nine away”.

 

The article in the paper also shows full size outline of the MLS of Cod, Plaice , Sole Haddock, Herring and 80mm mesh size, it also shows a number of diagrams showing how meshs hold their shape , whether it is diamond , hexagonal or square mesh.

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle1582515.ece

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle1582516.ece

 

 

There is also a piece in the editorial on page 20

 

cheers

Tom

[glennk]

Thats interesting considering the commercial posters for this site completely deny discards exist.

[Leon Roskilly]

More at:

 

http://www.sacn.org.uk/Conservation-and-Po..._Discards-.html

[Ken Davison South Wales]

It amazes me 6.1 billion grants and we get nothing and yet generate more turnover and revenue.

 

What was the estimated revenue generated by RSAs ??

[steve pitts]

It amazes me 6.1 billion grants and we get nothing and yet generate more turnover and revenue.

What was the estimated revenue generated by RSAs ??

 

Half a BILLION GBP plus, per year, direct spend - according the he Drew report.

 

Grants?

What are they Ken?

[Tom Pinborough]

Grants?

What are they Ken?

 

phils brother in eastenders ?

[seaside]

Thats interesting considering the commercial posters for this site completely deny discards exist.

 

More than 500,000,000 white fish / yr in the North Sea and West of Scotland fisheries may have a slightly different opinion.

[glennk]

I'm pretty sure they do seaside - or did, seen as though they are now dead.

[wurzel]

Thats interesting considering the commercial posters for this site completely deny discards exist.

 

 

No they don't!!!

[Guest challenge]

Very good lads, if you don’t want to accept reality then bring up discards. At least commercial fishermen can actually comment on this subject on here, using actual experience of discards.

I am not slating off your means of input on the subject. So why should you define somebody’s first hand experience as being nothing more than an opinion?

our hobby is about to be radically changed for ever, it has nothing to do with the shape of meshes or the discard number regardless of what figures you want to believe.

Yet you still attack an industry that has been under attack by the same people who want to now destroy your hobby, or at least the way that so many of you have enjoyed it for generations.

But your stubbornness and blindness to see what is happening, again makes you turn to your old favourite. Discards.

keep up the good work lads, at this rate the greens will not have to pressure the government to hard to bring in new legislation, because the opposition to any radical changes to RSA practices will be to busy arguing about the shape of a mesh.

Regards.

By the way did anybody complain about the shape of meshes back in the heydays of angling?