Fishing focus – issue 4
Defra & Marine Fisheries Agency (MFA) newsletter On 26 October 2006, the fourth issue of the Marine and Fisheries newsletter, Fishing Focus, and the supplement, ‘Charting a new course – one year on’ were published. Both can be downloaded as pdf files from the Defra web site.The newsletter is a joint publication from Defra and […]
Total Sea Fishing backs RSA
In the November issue of ‘Total Sea Fishing’ magazine, the editor, Darren Taylor, expresses his disgust over the paltry increase of the minimum landing size (MLS) for bass from 36cm to 40cm, which is due to take effect in April 2007. The editor invites ALL recreational sea anglers to write to the Rt. Hon. Ben […]
NFSA press release
New company will promote sea angling The National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA) is to streamline its management and decision-making process by becoming a limited company Subject to legal consents it will become the National Federation of Sea Anglers Limited from January 1 next, with a board of up to ten directors as the executive […]
WAG statement re bass mls
On 11 October 2006, Carwyn Jones, Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside for the Welsh Assembly Government announced the results of the consultation into the proposal to increase the minimum landing size (mls) of bass, together with an appropriate increase in the commercial net mesh size. [NB – Defra announced its decision on 10 August […]
The American Way
[Comment – In the post, ‘Resource first, then profits’ we reported on the regulation of the commercial Striped Bass fishery in the State of Massuchusetts. We now detail below the restrictions that apply to recreational anglers in that State.] The season is all year, but in reality very few striped bass are caught outside April […]