Please Help Fight to keep Sea Angling FREE!

[samcox]

(Don’t let them charge us for the commercial fishermen’s sloppy seconds)
I will keep this short and sweet to avoid boring you.
Why should sea anglers have to pay a license or have a strategy (that could find them bound up in restrictions) forced on them? The commercial fleet have been so badly managed over the past 35 years and stocks of a lot of species have declined so much that most sea anglers don’t get to see a good days fishing. Issues such as bag limits, no take zones and dictating of the methods chosen by anglers could be imposed on them once a strategy is in place. These would not be accepted by sea anglers as it was the commercial fleet that have ruined our sport.Course anglers happily pay a licence fee and I understand why, the rivers are well kept and regually stocked.We feel that without more and bigger fish it would be grossly unfair to impose a strategy or make sea anglers pay a license without first producing more and bigger fish.Please take a few minutes to read my e- petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website. The link is below.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/seaanglerlisence/
If you agree then please sign.
Thank you for taking the time to read my petition.
Regards...Sam Cox

[samcox]

I am not totally against a licence but I am totally against another stealth tax.

I want vast changes to the inshore activities of commercial fishermen first.
Sea angling is almost worth the same as commercial fishing if you deduct the amount that shellfish is worth. So why are we not catered for? Why do the government talk of sea angling licences and strategies? Well I will tell you, it because the worth of sea angling has been bought to the government’s attention by a few well-intended dedicated anglers who are trying to change things for the better. I trying to change things they have in avertedly educated the government on how much money they could procedurally gain from us without really giving us anything for that money!

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