HFW Channel 4 Fishfight

[kingcod deano]

get it signed

Hugh's Fish Fight - Half of all fish caught in the North Sea is thrown back overboard dead

[treeboa]

added the facebook page about a month ago, signed the petition about the same time, pushed an email after reading the email addy

[Red5]

funny thing is, the programme tonight is condemning Purse Seine netters for catching Tuna, and then goes on to advocate eating Mackeral, which are either caught in Purse Seine nets or by Pelagic Trawlers that can land well over 1000 tonnes of fish per trawl!!!!
And rather condemn the fisheries over there for catching sharks and turtle in the Indian Ocean, what of all the tope, smoothhound, huss, rays, dogfish etc caught in trawls and purse seine nets in the Atlantic and North Sea?

Jamie Oliver asked us to eat more Coley in the 'Fish Suppers' snippet before the show????? Errr aren't coley caught in the same way as cod in trawls????? so how is that helpful?

[mark]

LOL tonights was about Tuna and couldn't help but laugh out loud at the last few minutes when they'd approached an alleged Tesco ship (one of the crew was even wearing a Tesco T Shirt!!)

*African accent* "Oh Yes we catch sharks, Turtle and often Tuna - these are our by-catch"

car crash TV if you're a Tesco shareholder

If any one wants to add a bit more pressure... terry.leahy@uk.tesco.com

I'm sure he'll be over the moon to get loads of emails

[The Great Wallsendo]

...and then goes on to advocate eating Mackeral, which are either caught in Purse Seine nets or by Pelagic Trawlers that can land well over 1000 tonnes of fish per trawl!!!!...

I spotted the same flaw when VT cut to (HFW's Chef) Tim trying to bulk order pre-boned/frozen mackerel fillets for the Chip Shop experiment...

...only one way he's going to get those levels of mackerel fillets at a decent cost - but of course who's to say that off camera he didn't stipluate that it must be line caught...

[treeboa]

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From: mike adkins [mailto:treeboa@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 January 2011 8:57 PM
To: fiona@fionahallmep.co.uk
Subject: will anything be done ?



hi, as an angler and also a concerned resident of the uk i was appalled at what was shown on the tv last night regarding how much fish is thrown away, as was well pointed out if it was cattle, sheep of poultry discarded at the side of the road there would be absolute uproar , do you as an mep have any views or ideally any action to be taken regarding the squandering of our food stocks







regards mike adkins

[elliott.e]

dragons den idea

got a plan to reduce discarded fish,

buy a medium size trawler (£750,000 should do it), get appropriate licence etc, follow other trawlers, wait until they haul their catch, agree to pay them a nominal amount for the fish they would normally throw back.

steam back to harbour and sell me fish at local market!! no dead fish dumped into the sea, simples!

would save a fortune on nets, crew, fish finders and fuel! because after all it's all about the money, isn't it?..................


on a serious note, already signed the petition, not sure what it will achieve though, as their isn't a simple solution to suit all, one thing's for certain, marine habitat will be the only loser.

a point missed is that the quota is the maximum amount of fish allowed to be landed, nobody forces the trawlermen to keep trawling untill threy have filled all quotas for all fish, they do this simply to make as much money as possible, simple business.Commercial fisherman complain that lessoning quotas will affect their livelyhood, which obviously is unfortunate, but nobody has a divine right to make a living from the sea, or the land for that matter. skippers who didn't want to take a paycut would have to seek employment elsewhere, as have miners, shipyard workers and thousands of others in trades that have become nearly obsolete

[Davey-m]

Happy to have signed up to show my support.

217,871 People are supporting the campaign so far.

[Lowrider]

a point missed is that the quota is the maximum amount of fish allowed to be landed, nobody forces the trawlermen to keep trawling untill threy have filled all quotas for all fish, they do this simply to make as much money as possible, simple business.Commercial fisherman complain that lessoning quotas will affect their livelyhood, which obviously is unfortunate, but nobody has a divine right to make a living from the sea, or the land for that matter. skippers who didn't want to take a paycut would have to seek employment elsewhere, as have miners, shipyard workers and thousands of others in trades that have become nearly obsolete

A point that i did not miss and pointed out that it is the commercial boys reckless regard in the past that caused the problem in the first place.
I for one do not feel they are the ones that should be once again let loose to rape the sea just because stocks are improving.
I still no reasons or answers to my point that improving the method of sorting and keeping the fish could not be part of the answer.