Re: More Support to Ban Supertrawlers
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Your fishing industry needs to be ended quickly. You can't behave responsibly in conservation and sustainability. The Dutch fleet can simply, never ever be trusted in any other countries territory again, as they have proved.
1st January, start towing your ships into dry dock where they can be cut up and sold out for scrap.
A view from someone with expert knowledge, unlike you:
However, the supertrawlers were likely to be after different catch, said Dale Rodmell, the assistant chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations.
“Greenpeace regard supertrawlers as an easy target, but their arguments about fishing in MPAs are a red herring,” he said. “The majority of MPAs exist to protect seabed habitats and these trawlers fish mid-water and so do not affect the seabed. Most of our fish stocks range well beyond the boundaries of MPAs so controls on how much fish can be caught are far more relevant to the sustainability of stocks than limiting access to catches within MPAs.”