Fishing Focus

[Elton]

This can be downloaded here:

 

http://www.defra.gov.uk/fish/pdf/fishfocus8.pdf

[stavey]

Mr Shaw said: ‘Having

considered the science and

evidence, and having

listened carefully to the

concerns of anglers and

commercial fishermen, I have

decided not to increase the

MLS for bass.’ He explained

‘Bass is important to the

inshore fishing fleet, which

would have borne the brunt

of the cost of increasing the

MLS. I could not justify

introducing a measure which

would have had such an

impact on those fishermen

given the current pressures

they face and the healthy

state of the stock at present’.

 

What total BOLL*CKS