Sea Fishing Licence - would you pay?

[Leon Roskilly]

I saw you "making the case" against licenses Leon, where and when do WE get to vote on this?

 

Den

 

Hi Den,

 

See:

 

http://www.sacn.org.uk/index.php?news=375

 

(Well they certainly cut out a lot of hot air from the interview!)

Edited January 9, 2008 by Leon Roskilly

[ColinW]

I suggest that your local authority invest in surveillance equipment and tag the said thresher then track him with satellite tracking equipment and only allow him into your park for a limited number of days, make sure he is searched first and restricted him to only taking one bunch of daffodils and only allow him to carry equipment that has been approved for harvesting his allowable harvest, or better still put a total ban on him entering the park when the daffodils are in bloom.

make it illegal for him not too report his movements or intentions at all times and then make it illegal for him not to contact your local authority if he is intending to go home or come to that go to anybody’s house without first giving your authority 12 hours notice of his intentions.

Better still to make life a tad more difficult for this man, why don’t you limit the days he can leave the house at all, just in case the fool decides he might go and look for another park or come to that a different crop of flowers.

Does Mr Cathedral return every year to the same park and if so what does he harvest?

 

Could it happen? Could it?

 

Of course, no matter how many annoying but ineffective things the authorities do to pee him off, as long as he's still harvesting his daffodils with a glorified bulldozer he'll still wreck the park to the point where nothing will grow in it any more.

[Guest challenge]

Of course, no matter how many annoying but ineffective things the authorities do to pee him off, as long as he's still harvesting his daffodils with a glorified bulldozer he'll still wreck the park to the point where nothing will grow in it any more.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity

Regards

[wakki]

Someone has put a petition online at:- http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/seaanglerlisence/

Please get everyone to sign it ... we only have a short time or the Whitehall suits will take it all away from us!

[Leon Roskilly]

Someone has put a petition online at:- http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/seaanglerlisence/

Please get everyone to sign it ... we only have a short time or the Whitehall suits will take it all away from us!

 

Even more important to respond to the consultation Wakki

 

see: http://www.sacn.org.uk/index.php?news=375

[steve good]

As I view burglars as the lowest of the lowest form of scum that crawl this earth and having my home broken into just before Christmas enhanced my feelings toward these low life I find it quite offensive that you consider commercial fishermen in the same category with your daft analogy.

 

However as you consider us as burglars robbing you of your valuables I would be interested in your crime prevention strategy and how it would be implemented.

 

Hi Peter

 

H.A was referring to me by calling me Mr Gatherall because he knows my name to be Gathergood.

 

I am sorry to hear that burglars have robbed you of your valuables, as H.A infers that I am a burglar with his analogy I must stress to you that I did not steal your valuables in fact I would point out that I have NO CRIMINAL RECORD WHATSOEVER.

 

I sincerely hope they catch the person and throw away the key

 

steve

Edited January 11, 2008 by steve good

[H.A.]

Apologies Steve

 

all characters in my 'analogy' bear no resemblance to actual persons; unlike the story itself.

 

Edited January 10, 2008 by H.A.

[Jim Roper]

Apologies Steve

 

all characters in my 'analogy' bear no resemblance to actual persons; unlike the story itself.

 

Like they used to say on, Dragnet was it? The names have been changed to safeguard the innocent.

[Jaffa]

Even more important to respond to the consultation Wakki

 

see: http://www.sacn.org.uk/index.php?news=375

 

 

I like the bit

 

But there are other issues, such as the management of some species for recreational purpose, aiming to ensure access to more and bigger fish, and the 'Golden Mile' which anglers will need to enthusiastically back.

 

When did the Golden mile become something I need to "enthusiastically back" ? Its something that keeps getting pushed and rarely seems to be questioned, yet how many anglers have had much information on the problems it may (will IMHO) bring?

 

Never seen a proponent yet come up with answers to the displacement of fishing effort and its likely being a driver to bigger boats, cost, the effect on enforcement as cash is sidelined into endless petty cases about who does or does not have the right to fish in it (the lawyers are going to love it), the grief between commercials and RSA that will lead to restrictions on where we can fish, but most of all, the fact that this is not really an RSA idea;its a green one that has damn all to do with the interests of anglers; or me at least .

 

Green money and lobbying will pour into this; after all "Golden Mile", how brilliant is that for an easy to sell idea. RSA reps will sell it, diving organistions will go for it, Urban MPs will love it, and the green money and Newspaper industry will have a field day. At the end of that process who do you suppose will have control of the levers? RSA ?! :rolleyes:

 

More likely RSPB, WWF et al and the result will be that many of us will be kissing goodbye to areas we have fished for decades.

 

I will be enthusiastically opposing it, but doubt that will change a thing.

 

Chris

[Jaffa]

Yeh, yeh, yeh ...... how is it that many of us are well read on these subjects and may have fished (variously) for half a century or more and yet in your opinion we don't know what we are talking about.

 

Your dismissal and attempts to discredit do not have substance.

 

Before -

 

 

After -

 

 

Perhaps you should observe your bottom sometimes instead of talking out of it!

 

For those who want to read a scientific study how sea-bed damage is caused by dredges and trawls .....

 

http://www.eurocbc.org/envimpact_trawlseabed_review.pdf

 

Many of the numerous references given refer directly to studies in North Sea (UK) fisheries.

 

 

What exactly am i supposed to be looking at in those two pictures H.A ?