The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network

Archive for May 21st, 2008

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• Economic Study

  If you have been sea fishing in Scotland in the last three years this concerns you !
  
  The government will ‘go the extra mile’ to support commercial fishing, but do little to support sea angling.
  
  Economists from Glasgow Caledonian University are working on an economic study of sea angling which will help policy makers understand Scottish sea angling’s true significance.
  
  To support this there is an on-line questionnaire here
  
  Please take the time to fill in the questionnaire, pass on the message to your friends and encourage others.
  
  

• Catch and Release

  Handle a fish carefully, take your photo, release it quickly and help ensure Fish for the Future.
  
  Click on Alan's image and see more pictures of anglers with fish they have caught and released.

• The Shark Trust

  Established in 1997, the Shark Trust is a UK charity
  
  dedicated to the study, management and conservation of sharks, skates, rays and chimaera.

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• Give Fish A Chance

  Fish sustainably, only take fish for the table which have had a chance to reproduce.
  
  
  
  Click on the image, get the list and please use it.

• To Think About

  Perverse commercial logic

  The fishing industry lobbies for higher quotas, saying this will reduce the level of dumping at sea and thus increase stocks.

  They also claim that until five years ago dumping was addressed by illegal 'black fish' landings.

  So the new commercial policy would be to increase quotas and then illegally land any fish over that quota --- sounds like a real opportunity to increase stocks - not.

• Scottish Marine Bill

  
  

  The Scottish Government launched their consultation on a Scottish Marine Bill on the 14/07/08, it is scheduled to end on the 03/10/08.

  For more information or to read the Government consultation document, go to www.scotland.gov.uk/marinebill

  To submit your response, or for any queries on the Marine Bill email marinebill@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.

  Or to submit a written response by post, write to:

  CRES1031, Central Scanning Unit, Spur U5B
  Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive
  Edinburgh, EH11 3XD

• Weigh a cod !!

  The following will calculate the average weight of a Cod given it's length in cms.
  
  Just input a length and click on the calculate button
  
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• Why Join SSACN

  Many species of fish, once very common in Scottish waters are now commercially extinct.
  
  15+ million fish are discarded annually in the Clyde Nephrops fishery.
  
  500+ million fish are discarded annually in the waters around Scotland.
  
  EU fleets discard 2+ BILLION fish annually in the North Sea.
  
  Four species of shark - spurdog, porbeagle, common skate and tope urgently need management plans to stop their rapid decline.
  
  

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• Disclaimer

  The purpose of this website is to highlight conservation related issues which could affect Scottish sea anglers.
  
  Any opinions expressed or implied by any material on this website are purely personal to those contributors, and do not necessarily agree with those of the officers or of the members of the SSACN.
  
  The information on this website is given in good faith, but no responsibility is accepted for any errors which may have crept in, and we will be only too happy to rectify any brought to our notice.