Mass Slaughter

[Paul D]

http://seafishing-blaze-wpengine-com.blaze.staging.wpengine.com/news/angling-community-enraged-by-slaughter/

[Mal Thomas]

Shameful      

[great white]

Things like this just fuel up the anti angling lobby

[Maverick Martin]

Nothing to say it was anglers but shame on whoever did this

[gjb]

WHY 

[Adam F]

As much as I disapprove, this isn't illegal? Would it be any different if it was 50 flatfish / cod carcasses? It seems a commercial fisherman has landed a catch of smoothound, headed and gutted them and dumped the rest... Ok so maybe he should have binned them and not dumped it, but smoothounds aren't illegal to catch and sell if you're a commercial are they?

[Maverick Martin]

It wouldn't matter what species it would still be distasteful and in my opinion out of order. What if a slaughter house had killed a load of cows or whatever then dumped the carcasses at the side of a field/road, same thing in my book and there would be an outcry and rightly so.

Some people anglers/commercials will never get it the sooner they are gone the better life will be for the rest of us.

[Rob]

Maybe dumping the heads out to sea to feed the food chain, as opposed to binning / land filling them.

[Adam F]

Yep, agree with that and it's a fair point.

[Coddy]

Interesting article about smooth hounds http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/irelands-smooth-hound-sharks-under-threat-from-troubled-fishing-practices.html

 

I know it is a few years old now

 

Dave

[Stuie]

Fully agree Martin. It only takes a tiny thoughtless minority to give the impression that events such as this are the norm - when in fact that's not the case at all