Trawlers in Blyth

[5150]

Not done a lot of fishing in the last year but took the bairn down to Blyth Harbour last night for a couple of hours... Not even a single bite between us but we saw plenty of fish - bunch of Scottish trawlers moored up and dumping their by-catch over the sides, we saw HUNDREDS of dead fish floating past :-( Codling, Haddock, Whiting and plenty of others that were hard to make out in the dark. Makes me sick seeing that many undersize fish floating dead down the river.

[beachcaster]

totally agree mate,an angler will practise catch and release if he dont want the fish and judges it to be undersized.but a trawler kills all and dumps imature fish over the side ,not a bit wonder the fish stocks are in the state they are.makes me sick and to think the goverment does nothing about this or the dwindling fish stocks.