EU threat to the future of fishing

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Today it is the most popular sport in Britain, with an estimated 1.4 million people a year dropping a line to try their luck.

But new rules proposed by bureaucrats in Brussels pose a major threat to the future of fishing – and the livelihoods of charter skippers across the county.

Under the proposed scheme, thousands of oceangoing cruisers, yachts, private motor boats and even canoes would have to become registered fishing vessels if, even once a year, someone puts a line over the side of the vessel to catch their supper.

Told you so. They've started. Bit by bit Brussels will doofer us.

"Under the proposed scheme, thousands of oceangoing cruisers, yachts, private motor boats and even canoes would have to become registered fishing vessels . . . . "

Not wishing to make light of a serious topic, albeit yet another p.i.t.a. piece of Brussels madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

would that mean having to register bait boats too?



insert U-No-Wot to avoid confusion . . . . H E R E

No need for a national organisation to represent anglers interests then?

Yesterday Angling Trust had a meeting with the English Fisheries Minister and spent most of the time talking about these proposals, the damage they will inflict on sea angling, the economyand the reasons why the British Government need to reject them at the next Ministerial meeting in Brussels at which they will be discussed.

The Minister understands the issue now that he has been fully briefed.