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There was a mention in another post of this gear being used for haddock to reduce cod bycatch. Here is a link containing a picture of a model

http://www.smartgear.org/smartgear_winners...grand/index.cfm

The large mesh is 2.4m (yes metres!) in the full size net. They reckon they can catch the same amount of haddock because the net needs much less power to pull through the water. Apparently, cod stay on the bottom and escape, while haddock lift off the bottom and get caught.

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There was a mention in another post of this gear being used for haddock to reduce cod bycatch. Here is a link containing a picture of a model

http://www.smartgear.org/smartgear_winners...grand/index.cfm

The large mesh is 2.4m (yes metres!) in the full size net. They reckon they can catch the same amount of haddock because the net needs much less power to pull through the water. Apparently, cod stay on the bottom and escape, while haddock lift off the bottom and get caught.

Brilliant, look at the photo at the bottom of the link, thats what a trawl of fish should look like, not the crap ones that are doing the rounds over here and is what the likes of johnny shaw and lochhead, the bbc and co want the public to see. Take note ministers.

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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That net is at this momment being tested by whitby trawler our lass which is testing the net for defra of whitby.

Paul...

As I said in another thread, I was on the quay the other day when the lads off our lass 2 were in working on this new net.

It’s a strange sort of set up and when you look at the trawl laid out you wouldn’t think that it was capable of catching anything, never mind haddocks and not cod.

It certainly seams to work (not catching cod that is) they where having a bit of trouble in keeping there wing sections out of the ground and I think because of the size of the belly meshes and the doors they where working, they where getting to much spread.

Shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

They (our lass 2) where towing the eliminator trawl while another boat was fishing along side them using a conventional trawl.

Be good to see the results once they get the gear working ok.

Saw you today as we where coming in, did you have any luck at the rock edge?

Regards.

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Yes not to bad john we got a nice few fish not as good as a few weeks it was very good with the uptiding those big seas churned up to much choice for the fish to eat but the lads were happy which is the main thing looks very unsettled at the momment.

 

paul.

http://sea-otter2.co.uk/

Probably Whitby's most consistent charterboat

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