The website which keeps track of subsidies given to UK Fishing vessels has published a list of EU subsidised vessels whose owners have also been convicted of sea fishery offences. UK Registered Boats including : BEN LOYAL, CKS, Admiral Gordon, Admiral Blake, GIRL PATRICIA, CATEAR, DANIELLE, were given subsidies of upto £50,000 by the European [...]
Ever since 1990 Ireland’s bass have been conserved by a set of laws which completely protects the species from commercial fishing, whilst allowing anglers to take only 2 fish each within any 24 hour period. This sportfishery approach has reaped many benefits for the Irish, with anglers from right across Europe coming to take advantage [...]
Skipper ordered to pay £2,115 for fishing in a prohibited area
Garry Coley, skipper of the Shelley Marie, was ordered to pay £2,115 (£100 for the value of the illegal catch, £2,000 contribution to costs and £15 victim surcharge) by Torquay Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to scallop dredging in an area for crabbing vessels.
In the [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s overexploited cod fisheries are still at risk and catches must be cut by a quarter next year in all zones except the North Sea where measures have yet to be decided, the European Union executive said on Friday.
Northern cod populations have fallen from 250,000 tonnes in the 1970s to around 50,000 [...]
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 20 (Reuters) – EU fisheries ministers agreed on Tuesday to crack down on overfishing, saying their fishermen would get points on their fishing licences each time they broke rules or quotas and would be banned for excessive infractions.
The points system, taking effect next year, is part of a drive to reduce excessive fishing [...]
On 22 October 2009, following the favourable opinion expressed in September by the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Commission adopted a Regulation (PDF ~ 1,3 Mb) establishing the implementing rules for the 2008 Regulation to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As one of the central pillars of the Community’s [...]
Essex fish merchant, David Harper, pleaded guilty to two charges covering 22 incidents of buying fish worth £4,300 in total as an unregistered buyer and failing to submit sales notes, from ten different fishing vessels in 2006.
He also pleaded guilty to two further offences of buying fish when he was not registered and failing to [...]
Skipper of the 15-metre Brixham scalloper, Constant Friend, BM484, and former Torbay lifeboat coxswain, David Hurford, was fined £3,000 for dredging illegally in an area reserved for crab and lobster potters.
In a case brought by the Marine and Fisheries Agency, Mr Hurford, 59, of Washbourne Close, Brixham, pleaded guilty to breaching the terms of his [...]
Beamer Fined After Joint Operation With Environment Agency
The skipper and owner of the beam trawler Lauren Anne were ordered to pay a total of £12,000 in fines and costs for two offences of illegally restricting the size of her nets.
Skipper, Andrew Hill, of Woodingdean, Brighton, and owner Peter Leach, of Leach Fishing Enterprises, Portslade, Brighton, [...]
The Definition Of A Sea Angler
The Marine Committee of the Angling Trust meeting in June agreed that they would only represent recreational sea anglers. The meeting confirmed that the EAA definition of Recreational Sea Angling formulated in 2004 should be their criteria:
“Recreational sea angling is the activity of catching or attempting to catch fish, principally [...]
