For Commercial Bass Fishing Line Caught is Best Value.
A report by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) examining the economic, social and environmental “best value” of different methods of commercial bass fishing has just been published. It concludes that compared to trawling and fixed & drift nets, bass fishing with hook and line provides both the most jobs and highest price per kg of […]
The campaign for our bass: much achieved but far more needed
In the past 12 months we have achieved more meaningful protection measures for our bass than in all the previous 15 years combined. It’s a great start, yet the measures introduced to date are nowhere near enough to halt the decline in the bass stocks. Saveourseabass (See the SOS page here: http://www.saveourseabass.org/now-what-taking-stock-of-the-european-unions-sea-bass-measures/ ) have now produced a […]
A remarkable sight ….
Continuing the theme of the good-fortune enjoyed by the members of the BASS Blogging team, this time it’s Matt on the receiving end … In January Matt made an audio blog of Julian catching a fair few good bass including a whopper of 12 pounds. Well on their latest trip it seems the pendulum of […]
“Whatever the problem fishing is the solution.”
It was the eve of my 50th birthday. The morning had taken me far from home and I was now travelling to a regular fishing haunt via an unfamiliar route. Racing to my destination the southern English landscape constantly changed, as geography, light and weather rapidly varied. Such variation in the physical world mirrored my […]
A Year in the Making
“Cukoo, cukoo” bleeps my phone, alerting me to a text. It’s from Matt, “Wanna go fishing tomorrow?” I check the diary and text back, “It’s a goer!” “Fekinel!!!” is his near instantanious reply. For a variety of reasons I have been repeatedly unable to take Matt up on his previous offers of fishing from […]