Fishing discards practice thrown overboard by EU
You may remember the parting comments from the dolphins in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -“goodbye and thanks for all the fish”. This article signals the end of a mad fishing practice which has been enforced for far too long. It explains how the process of discarding over quota catches is to be ended.
More than 1m tonnes of healthy fish are annually thrown back dead into the sea by fishermen – due to EU rules, or in order to maximise their profits – and a ban on discarding fish such as mackerel and herring is likely from 2014. However for other very pressurised species such as cod, haddock, plaice and sole, the ban could be phased in from 2015, and not be fully in force until 2018. That, experts say, may be too late to be effective.
Lets hope the article is wrong in its projections for the end of fish and chips as we know it!