Loads of Great Prizes
SSACN’s great Summer Prize Draw
Thanks to several Members and Sponsors we are able to offer many great prizes for our Summer Prize Draw - amongst them :
A full day charter on Tiger Lily 3 for up to 10 anglers
£250 / £150 /£100 Penn Tackle Vouchers
Shimano Exage STC - 30/50 [...]
Two British trawlers, so far unnamed, were filmed discarding large quantities of fish in the North Sea by the Norwegian Coastguard.
According to them, British vessels regularly discard fish they have caught inside the Norwegian sector outside of it, as it is illegal to discard fish in the Norwegian controlled sector of the North Sea [...]
Commercial fishermen within the NWWRAC (North Western Waters Regional Advisory Committee) wrote to the EU to try and have the 5% spurdog bycatch rules changed allowing them to catch more of the species.
Fortunately the Commission has declined this request with a distinct change of language which should be welcomed as it now appears they are [...]
Mr Lochhead today promised a three-year plan, developed in partnership with the catching sector, to achieve a sustainable, fit for purpose and profitable fishing industry.
Detailed financial aspects of EU measures are still to be decided but the Scottish Government has pledged to make resources available, however the total scope and nature of the three-year plan [...]
In court at Brighton, Scott Trawlers – operators of some of the UK’s biggest scallop dredgers were accused of showing indifference to EU fishing laws and the Marine and Fisheries Agency.
The accusation resulted from fishery officers being denied the opportunity three times to inspect the Vertrouwen in port at Shoreham.
Despite repeated requests and attempts via [...]
The following are written answers from Mr Lochhead to parliamentary questions by Peter Peacock MSP (Lab).
Unsurprisingly they are neither detailed nor particularly supportive of sea angling.
What is particularly galling to us is the fact that the key direction always seems to be ’sustainable management’ - no thought appears to be given to the regeneration of [...]
After two years of scientific collaboration and consultation, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has launched its new Fishery Assessment Methodology designed to improve the quality and consistency of fisheries assessments.
In the past, independent certifiers were required to create an assessment tree for each individual fishery entering assessment, but the new methodology now provides a default [...]
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) has criticised the House of Lords report on the Common Fisheries Policy which concluded that no aid should be given to help fishermen survive the fuel crisis.
SFF chief executive Bertie Armstrong said: “The report draws the general conclusion that EU Member States have been slow to reduce fleet capacity to [...]
Marine life off Bournemouth on the English south coast is set to be enriched by Europe’s first artificial surf reef.
The reef, one of only four in the world, should bring real benefit to the local fish populations, benefit the coastline as it will help reduce coastal erosion and become a diving hotspot.
Construction of the £2.68 [...]
The Scottish government require further evidence before they will to take any action to protect spurdog.
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