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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)
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On a recent thread it was stated by a few that they are against the killing of fish.
Yet consider this:
Have you walked into the average tackle shop recently and noted what is sold in vast quantities? If you don't know, let me tell you: Boilies and pellets!
Where do you think the vast majority of the ingredients to these boilies amd pellets come from?
They come from the sea.
Fishmeal, comprising of vast quantities of sandeels and small pelagic fishes such as sardines and pilchards are harvested in huge amounts to supply the bait industry of Europe.
And where do you think these ingredients end up?
In the guts of carp and barbel, that's where.
I have thought about this for a long time now and I often think we are on the wrong tak. What is the difference between a big cod and a 40 pound carp? Nothing in my opinion; except that a 40 lb cod is a lot rarer than a 40 lb carp. Are we using the limited resources of nature the wrong way? Are we only concerned as anglers in seeing ourselves in a photo behind a fish that has grown that big on a resource that if we are not careful might run out?
Perhaps we should ban the use of boilies and pellets as angling baits, to help the seas recuperate.
What do you think?
Yet consider this:
Have you walked into the average tackle shop recently and noted what is sold in vast quantities? If you don't know, let me tell you: Boilies and pellets!
Where do you think the vast majority of the ingredients to these boilies amd pellets come from?
They come from the sea.
Fishmeal, comprising of vast quantities of sandeels and small pelagic fishes such as sardines and pilchards are harvested in huge amounts to supply the bait industry of Europe.
And where do you think these ingredients end up?
In the guts of carp and barbel, that's where.
I have thought about this for a long time now and I often think we are on the wrong tak. What is the difference between a big cod and a 40 pound carp? Nothing in my opinion; except that a 40 lb cod is a lot rarer than a 40 lb carp. Are we using the limited resources of nature the wrong way? Are we only concerned as anglers in seeing ourselves in a photo behind a fish that has grown that big on a resource that if we are not careful might run out?
Perhaps we should ban the use of boilies and pellets as angling baits, to help the seas recuperate.
What do you think?