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Wallsendo...As a coastguard (most people don't seem to know what we do), we are part of the UK's SAR service, along with the RNLI, voluntary organisations, the MOD (that's the yellow Seaking on my Avatar) etc. We are on a 24hr pager system like the lifeboats where we get paged to attend incidents where people/ boats are in need of assitance. We do not have anything to do with policing fisheries. It's a struggle to get funding from our government for sufficient PR, patrols and most importantly training. You'd be outraged if you knew the half of it.
Mark....Remember going to the Isle of Whithorn about 5 years ago, with 3 lads from our club. They had been the previous year and it was my first trip. we had next to nowt in the 3 days we were there even though the previous year the lads had caught and released hundreds of Dogfish. We were speaking to a local and he said the Spanish vessels had recently found a market for the doggies in Spain. Says it all really

<blockquote data-quote="Red5" data-source="post: 935354" data-attributes="member: 40">Wallsendo...As a coastguard (most people don&#039;t seem to know what we do), we are part of the UK&#039;s SAR service, along with the RNLI, voluntary organisations, the MOD (that&#039;s the yellow Seaking on my Avatar) etc. We are on a 24hr pager system like the lifeboats where we get paged to attend incidents where people/ boats are in need of assitance. We do not have anything to do with policing fisheries. It&#039;s a struggle to get funding from our government for sufficient PR, patrols and most importantly training. You&#039;d be outraged if you knew the half of it.&nbsp;Mark....Remember going to the Isle of Whithorn about 5 years ago, with 3 lads from our club. They had been the previous year and it was my first trip. we had next to nowt in the 3 days we were there even though the previous year the lads had caught and released hundreds of Dogfish. We were speaking to a local and he said the Spanish vessels had recently found a market for the doggies in Spain. Says it all really</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Red5, post: 935354, member: 40"] Wallsendo...As a coastguard (most people don't seem to know what we do), we are part of the UK's SAR service, along with the RNLI, voluntary organisations, the MOD (that's the yellow Seaking on my Avatar) etc. We are on a 24hr pager system like the lifeboats where we get paged to attend incidents where people/ boats are in need of assitance. We do not have anything to do with policing fisheries. It's a struggle to get funding from our government for sufficient PR, patrols and most importantly training. You'd be outraged if you knew the half of it. Mark....Remember going to the Isle of Whithorn about 5 years ago, with 3 lads from our club. They had been the previous year and it was my first trip. we had next to nowt in the 3 days we were there even though the previous year the lads had caught and released hundreds of Dogfish. We were speaking to a local and he said the Spanish vessels had recently found a market for the doggies in Spain. Says it all really [/QUOTE]

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