Nothing new in the response to the petition, boat anglers as we knew may be affected
" Member States are though required to monitor such catches by way of a sampling plan".
"Before Article 55 of Regulation 1224/2009 (previously Article 47) is implemented further detailed rules must be adopted. These will be negotiated in the coming months and will include agreement on the form the sampling plans must take. The UK Government will look for rules that allow it flexibility to target its efforts in those areas and on those vessels likely to be having the greatest impact on threatened fish stocks, but which do so in a way that will not place undue burdens on the vast majority of recreational sea anglers.
The UK Government will consult stakeholders, including angling representatives, before finalising its national arrangements"
Another consultation, how many times do RSA have to repeat themselves.
Some mixed messages coming out of Europe, this being one of them, Laugh well you just have to,even better if you can be bothered to watch her on youtube.
Commissioner's sea angling pledges to 'farcical' hearing 'worthless'
A PLEDGE by EUfisheries
commissioner Maria Damanaki
during her confirmation hearings
before the European Parliament's
fisheries committee that there
would be "no community
regulation of recreational sea
angling" has been branded
worthless. This follows her
promise in a newspaper
interview just weeks later that
"no fishery, not even leisure
fishing, will be unregulated".
Statements regarding the
monitoring of leisure fishing
were equally misleading, it is
claimed, as she told MEPs that
the effect on stocks was already
factored in by experts, while
she told Fishing News (FN 12
February) that this process was
"just starting".
UKIP MEP Nigel Farage,
a member of the fisheries
committee, said that she
"appeared to be prepared to
say whatever she thought the
audience immediately in front
of her wanted to hear".
He said: "To MEPs, she said
there would be no regulation,
and the effect of leisure fishing
was already accounted for.
To commercial fishermen via
Fishing News, she said that
there would be regulation of
leisure fishing, and that the'
effect was not yet accounted for.
"Which of these two
contradictory statements is true?
She has reduced the debate to a
farce and demonstrated that she
simply can't be trusted.
"More worrying is the
idea that the collection of
data, which she told MEPs
she already had, was in fact
just beginning. Charter boat
skippers and even individual
anglers will face mountains of
paperwork to account for days
at sea and catches landed.
"Clearly this is the thin
end of the wedge, and
where draconian reporting
requirements are put in place,
equally draconian regulation
will be sure to follow. For sea
anglers, this can only cause
serious problems."
Ms Damanaki's statement
to the European Parliament
fisheries committee can be
viewed at:
http://www.youtube.
comjwatch?v=a UYrj-mj Iu4
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