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Well in theory all countries are entitled to a 200 mile exclusion zone, unless the distance between two countries is less than 200 miles, whereupon it would be half the distance between the two. Sadly we are part of the EU and have surrendered our territorial waters for the 'common good' of our 'good friends' in Europe.
Did you know that half the fish we eat is probably black market fish, landed under cover of darkness and shipped to processing plants etc.
Hopefully the proposed marine zones, will make a difference, it's how far our government will go to the size of these zones.
Scientists advise that they should be at least 30% of the sea, with no forms of fishing allowed. Greenpeace would like at least 40%, with only the most destructive and intensive methods banned (we'd be ok there then) with these levels what both groups of sceintists belive is the only level to allow fisheries to recover. HM Government, want between 12% and 20%. So you can see how much the government enjoy taking your taxes, but don't care about making a sustainable future for our seas. They have been warned for decades that there needed to be stronger limits on fishing, but have ignored scientific advice (that your taxes pay for to the tune of £30million per year), due to the lobbying of the commercial sector.
I strongly adivse anyone who is rightly fed up with the state of Sea Angling to start reading up (the book I mentioned earlier is a good start), to see how EU states fly flags of convenience and are now raping the seas of poor African states, the subsidies you pay in taxes too fishermen for bigger boats and better equipment or to pay to trawl in other countries waters. The mehtods they use to get past a woefully inadequate fisheries inspectorate, how what they do is creating deserts under the sea and how they are now targetting deep water species that live longer than you or I and take decades to mature enough to reporduce.
I got mine from Amazon, second hand for the cost of a pack of Runnydown.
Did you know that half the fish we eat is probably black market fish, landed under cover of darkness and shipped to processing plants etc.
Hopefully the proposed marine zones, will make a difference, it's how far our government will go to the size of these zones.
Scientists advise that they should be at least 30% of the sea, with no forms of fishing allowed. Greenpeace would like at least 40%, with only the most destructive and intensive methods banned (we'd be ok there then) with these levels what both groups of sceintists belive is the only level to allow fisheries to recover. HM Government, want between 12% and 20%. So you can see how much the government enjoy taking your taxes, but don't care about making a sustainable future for our seas. They have been warned for decades that there needed to be stronger limits on fishing, but have ignored scientific advice (that your taxes pay for to the tune of £30million per year), due to the lobbying of the commercial sector.
I strongly adivse anyone who is rightly fed up with the state of Sea Angling to start reading up (the book I mentioned earlier is a good start), to see how EU states fly flags of convenience and are now raping the seas of poor African states, the subsidies you pay in taxes too fishermen for bigger boats and better equipment or to pay to trawl in other countries waters. The mehtods they use to get past a woefully inadequate fisheries inspectorate, how what they do is creating deserts under the sea and how they are now targetting deep water species that live longer than you or I and take decades to mature enough to reporduce.
I got mine from Amazon, second hand for the cost of a pack of Runnydown.
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