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  9. New bass regulations

    in Conservation Issues

    Posted

    Simple solution !

     

    BAN the sale and consumption of Bass on commercial premises for the next 10 years !!

     

    We can allow the closing of STEEL PLANTS; How many jobs ?

     

    We can allow the closing of COAL MINES; How many jobs ?

     

    Close commercial Bass fishing: How many jobs ?

     

    Nearly every harbour and estuary in the UK is a nursery area, for who's benefit ?

     

    How do you tell the difference between farmed and wild when it's on a slab in a fishmongers or on a plate in a restaurant or pub ?

     

    Someone somewhere is taking the p!ss !!

  11. New bass limits 2016

    in Conservation Issues

    Posted

    Even if this load of  Brussels crap is ratified and becomes law ?

     

    What constitutes a day, which is the word of the draft ?  midnight to midnight ?? or any 24 hour period ???

     

    If I go out overnight and catch one before midnight and one after midnight and get stopped on the way back with two, how will that work ?

     

    If I have one of your big boats and go out for 7 or 10 days and come back with 7 or 10 and get stopped ?

     

    It might be cheaper to register my boat and go seine netting  ?

     

    BTW don't expect to catch much in the way of Plaice this year because the ban has been lifted so the trawlers will be back !!

     

    HOW will you vote on the EU in or out ???????

     

     

  12. New bass limits 2016

    in Conservation Issues

    Posted

    Steve S, on 20 Jan 2016 - 12:15 PM, said:

    The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “The decision to water down the recent European decision on the bass stocks”.

    Government responded:

    The petition title misrepresents the EU process. UK Government successfully ensured anglers could fish for sport and the derogation for gillnets excluded driftnets that take most UK netting catches.

    The UK Government has not sought to water down the EU decision to protect bass stocks agreed in the EU fisheries Council on 15 December 2015, as suggested in the petition title. The terms of the petition are either a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the EU process and the UK Government’s approach.

    It is actually the UK Government that has consistently pressed for EU action to address the decline of the stock, and we secured emergency action in 2015. We were not the authors of the recent proposal for 2016, however – this was a Commission proposal – nor indeed of the derogations offered in the compromise deal tabled at Council. However the agreement for 2016 is tougher on most sectors than that for 2015.

    The UK Government did manage to achieve some key outcomes to adjust both the proposal and the related compromise deal. These help to protect the EU bass stock’s progress to sustainable fishing and the interests of both recreational and small scale commercial fishermen as EU bass fisheries move towards that goal, as follows.

    We fought for and secured continuation of a recreational catch and release fishery for recreational sea anglers during the 6 month moratorium on bass catches, which was under threat in the Commission proposal wording. This means that anglers and charter vessels can continue sport-fishing activity throughout the year, subject to the ban proposed by the Commission on keeping bass during the first six months, coupled with a single fish daily bag limit per person in the second half of the year.

    While accepting the principle of the proposed 6 month moratorium and a subsequent catch limit of 1 tonne per vessel per month for most commercial fisheries, we aimed to avoid disproportionate impacts on the lower impact, small-scale inshore hook and line and inshore fixed gillnet fisheries during the first 6 months. But as the UK Government position was for a more modest derogation than that offered on the day, we sought to reduce the impact of this on bass stocks.

    Our negotiating position was based on different fisheries’ relative impacts and reflected several factors. Hook and line has the highest degree of selectivity for the right size of bass taken – though gillnets also perform well compared with other fishing methods. We also needed to consider the proportion of the bass catch taken by UK vessels using these methods: although the nets gear group has previously accounted for half of the annual UK bass total landings (46% average from 2011-2013), drift-netting is estimated to account for up to 90% of this, as the Commission are aware, and drift-netting was not agreed for inclusion in the derogation.

    In the final compromise these two commercial fisheries (hook and line and fixed gillnets) were given identical derogations for all Member States fishing for bass (February-March moratorium and 1.3 tonne catch limit all year). The UK Government negotiating position in advance of the Council decision had been to press for lower – and differentiated – catch limits for derogations to apply for these two EU fisheries (excluding drift-netting) during the moratorium. But while the compromise offered higher monthly catch limits for netting, matching the limits for hook and line, these are not applicable to the majority of UK netting activity and are combined with the complete closure for two months.

    It was necessary to agree EU-level measures for bass in this way because we share the fishery with other Member States who need to be fully signed up if we are to achieve stock recovery. We now at least have a firm timetable with Member States’ and Commission agreement, to achieve sustainable fishing of bass by 2018, and the EU’s interim management package will increasingly be complemented by regional measures, including in the context of multi-annual management plans driven by the Member States concerned, as well as national ones.

    Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Click this link to view the response online:

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/116747?reveal_response=yes

    The Petitions Committee will take a look at this petition and its response. They can press the government for action and gather evidence. If this petition reaches 100,000 signatures, the Committee will consider it for a debate.

    The Committee is made up of 11 MPs, from political parties in government and in opposition. It is entirely independent of the Government. Find out more about the Committee: https://petition.parliament.uk/help#petitions-committee

    Thanks,

    The Petitions team

    UK Government and Parliament

     

    What the FLOCK does that mean in ENGLISH ???

  20. Possible Website Problem ?

    in Forum and Site Talk

    Posted

    Just received a reply from my son,

    BSc(Hons) Software Engineer.

     

    "It sounds like a bug or problem with their website…a BSOD & re-boot is usually due to software trying to access an area of memory that it shouldn’t be or doesn’t have access too….."

     

    Followed by ......

    "Don't forget that Microsoft's extended support for Windows XP & Office 2003 is ending on the 8th April 2014 and extended support for Windows Server 2003 is ending on the 14th July 2015. Extended support for Windows 2000 & 2000 Server ended back in July 2010. End of support refers to the date when Microsoft no longer provides automatic fixes, security updates, or online technical assistance."

  22. Possible Website Problem ?

    in Forum and Site Talk

    Posted

    A couple of times in the last few days whilst navigating this site my computer has shut down and rebooted.

    Anyone else ?

     

     

    Problem signature:

      Problem Event Name:                        BlueScreen

      OS Version:                                          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

      Locale ID:                                             2057

     

    Additional information about the problem:

      BCCode:                                               d1

      BCP1:                                                    FFFFF8800458E170

      BCP2:                                                    0000000000000002

      BCP3:                                                    0000000000000000

      BCP4:                                                    FFFFF880059F3C00

      OS Version:                                          6_1_7601

      Service Pack:                                       1_0

      Product:                                               256_1

     

     

     

    Being a Man Overboard

    in Safety Information

    Posted

    I'll stay at home by the fire, thanks ! :)

     

    How about an auto recoil safety line on the same principle as the doggy leads ? Just to keep control of slack when on board, not for a rapid return to the boat :)

     

    Clipped to a central secure point or any other secure point, as per any safety line but without the need to keep re clipping.

     

    You'll have to do a bit of dancing on deck to untangle the other dogs but if you go over you are still attached to the boat ?

     

    It would require some deck discipline but so would an MOB

     

    On a more gruesome note, if everyone went OB in a massive tangle still attached to the boat, it would make it much easier for ASR and RNLI to find and recover ?

     

    :lol:

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