Controls over wild wrasse harvesting imposed By Robert Outram – 1st December 2020 Fish Farmer ‘The Scottish Government has announced mandatory controls over the harvesting of wild wrasse for managing sea lice in the salmon farming industry. Fishers will have to meet certain criteria, show they have an appropriate relationship with an aquaculture business and have a proven […]
15th April 2020 Devon & Severn IFCA have carried out a three-year comprehensive review of the live wrasse fishery. A fishery for live wrasse emerged in the D&S IFCA’s District in 2015, in which a small number of commercial fishers target ballan, goldsinny, corkwing and rock cook wrasse. These fish are caught for use as cleaner […]
Fish Legal and the Angling Trust have written to the government to warn that it could face legal action if it fails to protect sensitive marine sites off the South Coast of England. Thousands of English wrasse are being caught in Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) – protected under EU law – and transported to […]
The awareness of this unregulated fishery is growing rapidly and the work the Angling Trust has done shows some worrying anomalies in the basic fishery data. Whichever figures are used it is not an insignificant fishery. The Norwegian work on comparisons between MPA no take areas and the unprotected coast begin to highlight impacts. IFCAs […]