I'm not often taken by campaigns, and I knew that by-catch is a problem, but it wasn't until Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall started his Fish Fight that I realised just how big a problem it is. On the trawler Hugh visited, they had to throw away dead, 50% of their catch as they had no quota. This happened every five hours. If you just counted the Cod, it was enough to feed 2,000 people. Yes 2,000 people, every five hours from just one boat.
Surely, it would be better to limit the number of days the boat was allowed to fish, but to land everything they caught.
Apart from the shameful waste of fish, think of the waste of fuel used by the Trawler having to stay at sea twice as many days.
I urge you all to sign up to his campaign and lobby you MP & MEP.
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