Petition save our oceans

[MattyF]

Would like to hear both sides of the story, maybe it's because I was a fisherman for almost 20yrs, it would be too easy to sign it and forget about job losses at sea and ashore.

Sorry!

Although I can see the good intent.

 

How did your boats fish? I don't really have any sympathy for people loosing there jobs if these methods are used ... Sorry !

[Mull]

How did your boats fish? I don't really have any sympathy for people loosing there jobs if these methods are used ... Sorry !

 

Take your point to a degree, we all damage/ pollute our planet, how you gettin to work tomorrow? Probably the same way a the rest of us!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Would like to hear both sides of the story, maybe it's because I was a fisherman for almost 20yrs, it would be too easy to sign it and forget about job losses at sea and ashore.

Sorry!

Although I can see the good intent.

 

Beaming in the blood; I won't be singing.

[Lee Winger]

Demersal longlining, gill netting, fish trapping, potting are methods I can accept, I've got no gripe with the majority of the inshore fleet. But dragging 5 ton of iron over a seabed trawling or catching 500 ton of mackerel in one hit I can't accept as a sustainable industry. Don't get me started on trawler bycatch!

 

I don't blame low fish stocks competely on commercial fishing, I also blame bad government/EU fisheries managment

[Mull]

Beaming in the blood; I won't be singing.

 

Confused!?!

[Lee Winger]

Confused!?!

 

I'm guessing beam trawling, highly detrimental to the seabed and catches huge amounts of juvenile fish, one fishing method that definitely needs banning

[Mull]

I'm guessing beam trawling, highly detrimental to the seabed and catches huge amounts of juvenile fish, one fishing method that definitely needs banning

 

I'm guessing you're right mate.

To sign a petition on the info given in the link, I think would be guessing also. No doubt many fishing methods do damage as do many other occupations, we need a lot of information before we ban them is all I meant.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I'm guessing beam trawling...catches huge amounts of juvenile fish

 

That bs hasn´t been heard for years! Are you disputing the infamous triangle gauge?

[Lee Winger]

That bs hasn´t been heard for years! Are you disputing the infamous triangle gauge?

 

Beam trawlers - destroying the seabed | Greenpeace UK

[Lee Winger]

Fishing Methods