New EU fishing quotas announced

[Old Smoothound]

Originally Posted by pinguprogress

makes me bit ashamed to be in exeter area where hes our politician, maybe should go to one of his surgeries (ps i didnt vote for him)
smoothy love the sig

Cheers Dude,

Maybe it will catch on if you know what I mean!

[Old Smoothound]

Oh please he's a member of the Labour Party Movement for Lesbian and Gay rights.........

We're Doomed..........Doomed

[John Marshall]

Originally Posted by Old Smoothound

Oh please he's a member of the Labour Party Movement for Lesbian and Gay rights.........

We're Doomed..........Doomed

That about sums it up.

So lets pester the blighters, got to be in writting tho, they are dutybound
to reply.

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[wellyfish]

Originally Posted by Paul - Sunderland

Totally agree....

This government, in my eyes, f*** the fish, f*** the seas, f*** the fishermen, f*** everything, lets go and have a f****** war that will never end, kill loads of soldiers, in fact, lets just destroy the f****** planet!!

makes me f****** sick !!!

theres a lot of fish and fishing in this post !!!f***...f******

[DownSouth]

Originally Posted by Jimdefruit

Just a point I would like cleared up.
Can anyone tell me the gross tonnage of fish, say cod, taken by the UK fishermen per year over the last fifty years.

Jim, don't know the UK figures or the last 50 years, but in 1994 90,000 tons of cod was taken from the North Sea and in 2004 10,000 tons was taken. Only a small amount of that drop off is due to a shrinking UK fleet. The REAL reason is stock loss. Cod stocks are at 30% of what they need to be to maintain their survival.

F*****g hell, what were the EU thinking!!!

[upnorth1]

Downsouth, you're dead right mate... but on a another note, I don't care if a million tons (well I do really!...??) were taken, if a species is close to extinction, which I read some where that cod are very, very close to being totally wiped out, I believe they should be left alone COMMERCIALLY.

Lets get this straight, rod and line ANGLERS, do NOT affect stocks! FACT.

Commercial hunting of a species DOES! FACT.

If it was a bloody butterfly, or snail, or some hedge hobbit that lives under a log in Dingly bloody Dell, (not that I have anything at all against the fore mentioned - much) then we would all be banned from going anywhere near these places, in fear we might plight the future of such creatures. All the goody do-gooders will be up in arms, but nobody gives a sh*t when it comes to fish! WHY IS THAT ??? Anglers themselves do MORE than anyone when conservation is mentioned. Most of us keep our beaches clean, look after our angling environment, and above all else, we like to look after our FISH! When I say look after I mean, if it's gonna be eaten, it's killed immediately. If not, it's unhooked, CAREFULLY, and returned CAREFULLY. Nuff said.

THERE SHOULD BE A TOTAL BAN ON COMMERCIAL FISHING IN ALL AREAS UNTIL STOCKS ARE REPLENISHED.

WHEN THE SEAS ARE EMPTIED IT WILL BE NO ONE ELSE'S FAULT BUT GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCIAL 'FISHERMAN' - IT MAY NOT MATTER TO THEM NOW - BUT WHEN WILL IT MATTER ???

[nimue4]

Wow

Highly charged thread.....

I really hope someone with some clout reads it and realises how us sport fishermen feel about the stocks of our endangered and beloved fish.

Now is the time to do something about it not next year after the holiday.

i fish close to a no fishing nursery area and take maybe 2 or 3 Bass every couple of weeks in the hot(?) season, but am amazed at the netsmen covering the whole estuary every day? So whats the point of the nursery area if all the fish are netted on the way out?

I'm as incensed as you guys.

Don't understand, Jules.