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Fishermen to get extra days at sea in deal



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Published Date: 19 December 2007
BRITAIN'S fishermen will be able to earn extra days at sea under new conservation measures after the European Union backed UK proposals designed to protect cod stocks and reduce the amount of fish thrown back into the sea.
A joint UK-Ireland initiative in the Irish Sea aimed at improving understanding of the state of stocks and avoiding discards was also backed, allowing participating boats to earn extra days.

The deal reached in Brussels today by EU fisheries ministers on catch limits and the number of days trawlers that can go to sea next year will see some increases in annual quotas as well as further conservation measures designed to protect vulnerable stocks.

But off the west of Scotland and in the Irish Sea, fishermen must absorb yet more cod fishing reductions of up to 25 per cent.

As well as an 11 per cent rise in the North Sea cod quota, the deal offers a 50 per cent increase in Rockall haddock, and an eight per cent increase in megrim.



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  • Last Updated: 19 December 2007 10:01 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Sea fishing industry
 
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19/12/2007 15:24:53
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JayDeeTee,

19/12/2007 19:02:07
#1. There's a fruit named after this bloke as well.....an ugly fruit or something it's called. Smells like it's decomposing though.
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tomfrom66,

Thornton Cleveleys 19/12/2007 21:32:21
The full article in this week's New Scientist contradicts the rather upbeat spin that has been put on the latest EU fisheries agreement.

But the big issue that remains in contention is the use of so-called 'bottom trawling' (Benthic trawling) which scrapes everything off the sea bed leaving a wasted desert-like sea floor behind it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_trawling

The EU commission have 'bottled it' three years running, so, at some point this century: it's no more fish with the chips. Sad.
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Dr. James Wilkie,

Vienna 19/12/2007 21:58:09
Try these ones too in order to see some of the effects of EU CFP overfishing;

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/iiasa35/docs/speakers/speech/pdf/Dieckmann_Heino.pdf

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/iiasa35/docs/speakers/speech/ppts/dieckmann.pdf

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/iiasa35/docs/speakers/speech/videos/chipeta.wmv

 

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