Re: EU Overfishing UK waters??
Originally Posted by
Percy Vere
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I was perfectly aware of what I was posting thank you very much. I did NOT touch on, or even intend to touch on, fish quota matters in my post. My only concern was to highlight the
FACT, as reported by the WWF, that almost the whole of the eastern side of the North Sea is essentially devoid of all marine life.
In my opinion, Italian olive oil is probably the best in the world but that's by-the-by and I'm biased as I lived there for many years. No manufacturing in Italy? Well, let's see, FIAT cars, luxury cars, tractors, leather goods, shoes, and those are just for starters.
And, you've yet to tell me why do you use so many *?
We were about the future when british fishers would catch all 700Ktones from british waters themselves, EU none in british waters. As british fishers at present catch 724 Ktonnes of fish (combination of what they catch in british and other seazones).
So to keep their future catch equal to the present, they have to buy 24Ktons in quota from other countries.
As for damage. All trawlers, large small cause that damage, one big EU vessels just as much as ten small UK vessels.
Btw, the UK has supertrawlers too:
The biggest whitefish trawler in the UK fleet the Kirkella, based at*Hull, can catch 2.3 million fish on every two-month voyage, plying the seas of the Arctic, Greenland, Norway and the north-east Atlantic.
Defenders of large vessels reject this, arguing that the waters in which the Kirkella and similar trawlers operate are inhospitable to small vessels, which tend to fish closer to shore. “It is horses for courses,” said Jane Sandell, the chief executive of UK Fisheries. “They could not do what we do, and vice versa.”
☆☆☆ flow from my magic wand.