The Fisheries Bill is mentioned in the December Queen’s Speech page 19 as is the Environment Bill NFFO comment on the The Year Ahead – the negotiation North Sea Cod UK Government text & NFFO commentary: North Sea Cod Bass angling perspective – bag limit increase to 2 – Save our Sea bass Guardian commentary […]
From: Chris Williams Senior Programme Manager New Economics Foundation The EU Council is meeting on 16/17th of December to set total allowable catches (TACs) for the North Sea and Northeast Atlantic. There are the final TACs that will be agreed before the EU’s deadline to end overfishing (F<Fmsy) by 2020. We hope the summary of relevant […]
Two articles from the Guardian: 1. ’The EU will resist any renegotiation of fishing quotas in the seas around the UK for the proposed two-year transition period after Brexit, the Guardian has learned. Brussels diplomats are agreed that Britain should effectively remain governed by the EU’s common fisheries policy during the transition but should not […]
This is a Governance shambles where a derogation has been applied to 100+ Dutch vessels against EU policies banning such practice. This CFP’s version of ‘scientific whaling’. EIA for fisheries are needed before major technology changes are subsidised. European Vote prompts this flurry of interest Electric pulse fishing: The Commission has warmed to electric pulse […]
The next phase of the discard ban is introduced to encourage sustainable fishing. Defra Published 2 January 2018 From today (2 January), fishermen targeting certain fish in the North Sea must land everything they catch as the next phase of the discard ban for demersal species comes into force, Fisheries Minister George Eustice has announced. The discard ban, […]
Scottish Fishermen’s Federation set their response in relation to Brexit Client Earth https://www.clientearth.org/2018-fishing-limits-set-high-herring-whiting-ministers-continue-ignore-science/ Pew: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/ending-overfishing-in-northwestern-europe Marine Conservation Society Fishing levels continue to be set too high in penultimate December council meeting before date set for Brexit says UK’s leading marine charity Following the annual fisheries negotiations at the European Council of Ministers in Brussels to […]
Thanks to Keith Hiscock for this news. Persist with the Plymouth Herald site you’ll get to the video eventually. This article describes the still shocking realities of discarding of bass and the candid video of a local Plymouth fisherman. Fishermen have thrown £120k of dead fish back in sea in a week The fisherman say […]
Thanks to David Curtis for keeping me posted on these developments SAVE OUR SEA BASS November 2017 Update Fishing for Sea Bass Is Not A Crime – Don’t Let The EU Make It One! The EU wants to make it illegal for the public to catch or keep a single sea bass in 2018. But […]