Angling Trust supports efforts to combat illegal fishing posing threat to fish stocks

[FishingMagic]

The Angling Trust is backing a new information campaign by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to tackle illegal fishing.

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[greenie62]

The Angling Trust is backing a new information campaign by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to tackle illegal fishing.

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The article goes on to mention a number of prosecutions being taken against illegal commercial sea-fishing

Illegal fishing encompasses a wide variety of activities. At one end of the scale it can consist of enormous quantities of illegal fish landings, such as the £62 million of illegal fish (170,000 tonnes of mackerel and herring) landed and sold from licensed Scottish fishing vessels between 2002 and 2005.

Or the millions of pounds worth of illegal fish landed into Newlyn over more than six years by a well-known fishing company in the South West before the owners and skippers of the licensed vessels involved were finally prosecuted, in the largest case of its kind to date, in 2009.

- unfortunately the article is very coy about mentioning who the "well-known fishing company in the South West" was.

If they had been recreational anglers who were prosecuted - EA, for example, would have published their details in the press for public vilification / condemnation - Why not treat commercial law-breakers the same way?

 

[thecrow]

If they had been recreational anglers who were prosecuted - EA, for example, would have published their details in the press for public vilification / condemnation - Why not treat commercial law-breakers the same way?

I have learned that its not what the EA or the trust say its what they don't say or ignore that is often very relative to any press release.

 

[rayner]

The Angling Trust have nothing to benefit me so I have no hesitation in giving then no credence.

 

[no-one in particular]

Is it all going a bit beyond their remit; an organization for "anglers"?
An obvious self interest but the whole realm of commercial fishing, law, international law, ect. Well, it wasn't what they were formed for, it seems a bit of a bigger scope for them, they will lose sight of their members, the grass roots if they are not careful.
Just a passing thought.