Article 47, EU Common Fisheries Policy:
Monitoring of Recreational Fisheries
a, Recreational fisheries on a vessel in Community waters on a stock subject to a multiannual plan shall be subject to an authorisation for that vessel issued by the flag Member State.
b, Catches in recreational fisheries on stocks subject to a multiannual plan shall be registered by the flag Member State.
c, Catches of species subject to a multiannual plan by recreational fisheries shall be counted against the relevant quotas of the flag Member State. The Member States concerned shall establish a share from such quotas to be used exclusively for the purpose of recreational fisheries.
d, The marketing of catches from a recreational fishery shall be prohibited except for philanthropic purposes.
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Wednesday, 21 January 2009
... and then they came for the anglers ...
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I suppose I can see that recreational fishing can effect fish stocks. A fish taken from the sea is a fish taken, whether it is commercial or recreational. (But fish over quota or under sized taken and thrown back dead is also lost from stocks.)
So a, b and c could make sense - perhaps commercial fishing has so dwindled that recreational fishing is now a significant proportion of fish landed. But once you have put recreational fishing on the same footing as commercial fishing, why d) - what does it matter to the fish stocks if fish is sold or not?
Obviously there is something other than fish stocks at stake.
I take it there will be a licence fee/tax involved.
"I take it there will be a licence fee/tax involved."
Why, whatever gave you that idea...? ;)
Eat it all before you get back to the harbour.
Never fails.
What is at stake is controlfreakery over 4 million people ( UK ) unadministered, that in itself must be 'wrong'.
But what did they do when hunting with hounds was being 'banned', nothing.
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