Banned from landing whiting

[paulthespark]

[QUOTE=matchman;231202]You can sign all the petitions in the world - Brussels will always have their way...

Why oh why can't Britain (aren't we supposed to be GREAT Britain...?) just, for once, say no to Brussels. Why can't the UK manage it's own seas and its fishing

the reason we can't manage our own waters is because when we joined the then called common market, that grinning dickhead ted heath signed away all our fishing rights to the e.u so that the french would give us thier vote, and that's when our problems with fish stocks really started ,i have no problem with british commercials fishing british waters for british people but in my opinion thats where it ends.

[Hartlepool codder]

we do mate, its the daft bloody rules you lads have to work with, that link being the latest in a long long line of them
its not like we are fighting to save something for our children's children, the eu keep it up and this will be gone in our lifetime, this shower of idiots and the previous governments waxing lyrical about saving the planet, carbon footprints, recycling, emissions you name it, yet with the seas it seems to be out of sight out of mind

yes your right mate . thats why i stick to me 21ft cygnus and do mostly potting so all the by catch goes back un harmed. i do gill nets in winter but it is really hard to make a living. seals being the biggest killer to our living and then the quotas. i mean the whitey ban wont affect us small boats but it makes no sense in giving us a bit of cod quota and banning whiting so all the big boats are dumping fish yet again . its all wrong our government is total and utter shi*te. then you get the dutch spanish etc etc beam trawlers plowing our grounds then landing there catch in our country. our own 10m trawlers cant make a living no more its finished. they rely on the prawns showing and if they dont then its game over and the full fleet are tied up. half of these idiots in government aint spent a day at sea in there lives , its about time they did and relised what it is actually like. clowns

[jonesey]

for or against the EU, give the people a bloody vote.

[treeboa]

if even half these morons in government spend time as soldiers not officers, as nurses, doctors, most things that average joe public does as a job, then perhaps they may see the real world not the one they see through rose coloured spectacles

[white water]

i think its a bit daft to be onest that they are returning more dead fish

[Hartlepool codder]

if even half these morons in government spend time as soldiers not officers, as nurses, doctors, most things that average joe public does as a job, then perhaps they may see the real world not the one they see through rose coloured spectacles

exactly

[rich666]

Continuing on the same theme here:
First we sign away our fishing grounds.
Then we sign away over half of the Navy.
What's next ?? - Tell the EU they can have our farming land and do what they want with that??!!

By the time the EU and the rest of the idiot politicians are finished with us we'll be paying them a small fortune to fish our waters from our shores and the farmers will be the EU to grow there crops for the rest of Europe.