GrahamM
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This message is from Martin James:
When are we anglers and the general public going to protest and demand action to get the gill nets being used around the coastline of the United Kingdom banned?
In the North West, on the Lancashire coast at Heysham, we have a bass nursery. Now you would think the powers that be would ban the nets of death in such an area. No they continue to let these gill netters cause the slow death of undersize bass, sea birds and crustaceans.
I was at Heysham today and witnessed some twenty or more big crabs caught in a net with no chance of escape All they could hope for was a slow death. I had no knife or scissors so I wasn't able to cut these poor creatures free. Lets see PETA do something about this cruel practise. I am writing to my Member of Parliament when he gets elected on June 7th, MY local sea fisheries officer at Lancaster University, The RSPB and the management of Heysham power station. Also various local papers seeking their help to get this horrid practise outlawed. Please help me get gill nets banned by writing to your MP and those groups listed not forgetting your local paper. If enough people demand action things will happen. For ten years I fought to get storm over flow pipes banned at sewage works. In 2002 they will be banned. But it doesn't happen over night.
Martin James
When are we anglers and the general public going to protest and demand action to get the gill nets being used around the coastline of the United Kingdom banned?
In the North West, on the Lancashire coast at Heysham, we have a bass nursery. Now you would think the powers that be would ban the nets of death in such an area. No they continue to let these gill netters cause the slow death of undersize bass, sea birds and crustaceans.
I was at Heysham today and witnessed some twenty or more big crabs caught in a net with no chance of escape All they could hope for was a slow death. I had no knife or scissors so I wasn't able to cut these poor creatures free. Lets see PETA do something about this cruel practise. I am writing to my Member of Parliament when he gets elected on June 7th, MY local sea fisheries officer at Lancaster University, The RSPB and the management of Heysham power station. Also various local papers seeking their help to get this horrid practise outlawed. Please help me get gill nets banned by writing to your MP and those groups listed not forgetting your local paper. If enough people demand action things will happen. For ten years I fought to get storm over flow pipes banned at sewage works. In 2002 they will be banned. But it doesn't happen over night.
Martin James