Meeting the French
Malcolm Gilbert and Bob Cox from the BASS Restoration Project, and Phil Marshall from CEFAS, travelled to St Malo in Brittany for a meeting with interested parties from France on 15 April 2000. This was the second occasion that BASS had visited France to exchange ideas. Whereas the first meeting in the Spring of 1999 […]
MCS Conference on RSA
On Saturday 25 March 2000, the Marine Conservation Society hosted a Conference for Recreational Sea Anglers at Aston University, Birmingham, which was chaired by the National Federation of Sea Anglers. A review of the MCS Conference on Recreational Sea Angling by Dave Cooling, I have been called to task for being slow in updating the […]
Devon's Living Coasts conference
On 12 April 2000 Malcolm Gilbert presented the following paper at this workshop entitled Maximising sustainable socio-economic benefits from fish stock resources. “Firstly, just a little about myself. I am not an academic, I have no scientific training or qualifications, I am in the true sense of the word – a layman. I have, however […]
Malcolm Gilbert meets MAFF
On Wednesday 29th March 2000, Malcolm Gilbert and Andrew George MP for St Ives were summoned to Nobel House (MAFF headquarters) for another meeting with Elliot Morley MP (Minister, Fisheries), Peter Winterbottom and Simon Waterfield (MAFF). The offshore bass fishery The low catches by the UK offshore winter fishing vessels in February and March this […]
Analysis – Offshore Consultation
In the House of Commons on 28th March 2000, Andrew George MP asked: What were the results of the recent consultation on bass trawling regulations in respect of (a) the number, (b) the percentage of respondents (i) agreeing and (ii) disagreeing with the proposed regulations, (c) the number and (d) the percentage of respondents in […]