Bass is one of the most valuable fish available to most commercial shore netters and therefore a key driver for them. The 2017 ban on shore netters landing bass reduced commercial shore netting activity and thereby reduced bass mortality however this has now been reversed. The revised legislation on the prohibition on landing and selling […]

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Latest advice shows seabass population is dangerously low The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) says the latest advice from ICES that no seabass should be caught in 2017 from the stock in UK’s waters reveals the desperate situation this restaurant and recreational angling favourite is in.  The advice confirms fears that the population – which is mainly […]

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