FISH FIGHT

We really need to change our eating habits in order to ensure that we don't wipe out numerous species of fish from our seas forever. People should be willing to try new things, but they will only do so if we can get the supermarkets on side and stocking unusual but well stocked fish.
The issue of castaways really is awful, I'd agree with Acidhell and introduce some sort of small window for fishing but allow them to catch pretty much anything. We'll see what the EU comes back and says. However, like anything to do with the EU it's going to be nearly impossible to get consensus and even harder to police it...

whitecrook said:
mackeral bap looks nice

Anyone know what fish you get if you ask for fish and chips / fish supper in a typical glasgow scotish chippy ?
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Agreed, might make one next week.
In Aberdeen it's pretty much exclusively Haddock, and if you want Cod you'd need to ask for it. I believe it's the same in Glasgow.
 
Just a heads up, new series starting in a few mins

Hugh's Fish Fight: Save Our Seas on Channel 4 9:00pm Thursday 14 February on TVGuide.co.uk

Season 2. Episode 1 of 3. New series. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall continues his campaign to save the world's diminishing fish stocks, hoping to persuade governments around the world to set up more marine protected areas. He witnesses the practice of dynamite fishing In the Philippines and dives underwater off the Isle of Man to see the destructive effects of scallop dredging, before launching his Save Our Seas initiative at Weston-super-Mare with a dramatic public display.

http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=148326373
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Dredging just needs to be out lawed in eu totally. :(

If you wish please show your support for introducing new MCZ of which UK seas have just 0.0001% protected.
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http://www.fishfight.net/#

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/marine/mpa/mcz/default.aspx
Defra is running a public consultation seeking views on proposals for the designation of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in English inshore and English and Welsh offshore waters. The consultation will run until midnight on 31 March 2013. It gives stakeholders the opportunity to comment on the proposals for site designation and the underpinning evidence and provide any additional evidence on the proposed designations before they are finalised. We encourage all stakeholders to use this opportunity to make their views heard.

The evidence received from the consultation, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and Natural England advice submitted in July 2012 and other recent evidence will be evaluated and taken into consideration before Ministers make their final decisions on which sites to designate in the first tranche in 2013.

In 2009 the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and Natural England set up a project to give sea-users and interest groups (stakeholders), from local fishermen to international corporations, the opportunity to recommend possible MCZs to UK Government through the establishment of four regional MCZ projects. In September 2011, these regional MCZ projects recommended 127 MCZs including 65 reference areas to JNCC and Natural England. The recommended MCZs cover approximately 15% of the Defra marine area (English territorial waters and UK offshore waters adjacent to England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Natural England and JNCC, as the Government’s advisers on the natural environment, reviewed these recommendations. In July 2012 we submitted our formal advice to Government on the science behind these recommendations, the quality of the ecological data and our views on the overall regional MCZ Project process.
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Changes can happen, EU voted to ban fish discarding
http://www.worldfishing.net/news101/industry-news/iffo-welcomes-discards-ban
Andrew Mallison, director general of the International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organisation (IFFO), has welcomed the European Parliament’s vote to introduce a ban on discarding fish in EU waters.
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MrMoonX said:
Stop eating fish = problem solved
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That's not a solution at all.
For a start people won't stop eating, even if everyone in uk stopped eating fish. We have little control on seas. We can however set up Marine Controled Zones (protection areas) which allow sea life to thrive and actually increases amount for fisherman to fish.
the purposal is going before goverment soon and needs as much support as possible.
 
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