Recent measures make little impact to save our bass: demand politicians do more!
The European Union’s own scientist state we need an 80% reduction in bass landings to prevent imminent stock collapse, yet early French statistics for the year to date show bass catches are down only 14% ! The temporary suspension of “pair trawling” announced in January was a start, but this was meant to reduce landings […]
Save our sea bass campaign: an update
David Curtis has provided this update on our ongoing campaign to bring about the necessary 80% reduction in landings of our bass. It will go out to the thousands who signed our 38 degrees “saveourseabass” petition. The bottom line is we need to continue to demonstrate we are in this for the long run and […]
Campaign Progress Report: BASS meetings with DEFRA and the EU
Meetings and discussions both at an EU and UK level continue to take place to agree better ways to protect our bass. Yesterday at a meeting in Brussels with DG Mare (the Commission department responsible for the implementation of the Common Fisheries policy) BASS were represented by David Curtis and Malcolm Gilbert. The early feedback […]
Claiming poor recruitment of bass alone does not explain recent stock decline
Over the past few years some have vocally claimed the reduction in bass stocks is a result of poor recruitment (i.e. low numbers of young fish) to the overall stock. Some I am sure genuinely believe this to be a truthful and complete explanation, others I suspect claim this to be fact in an attempt […]
The View of BASS: Keep Pushing for Our Bass and Our Sport
On Monday 26th January the EU made its ground breaking announcement, imposing emergency measures on pair trawling for bass. There have since been further indications at EU and UK levels to support previous statements that this (temporary) measure is just the first move. Further (as yet unclear) measures it seems will follow to reduce the […]