Bass joins list of threatened fish
First it was the cod, then the haddock, the swordfish and even the anchovy – now sea bass looks likely to join the list of no-nos for eco-conscious dinner party menus. Stocks of the palatable species have sunk to their lowest in the past 20 years, according to a new assessment by the International Council […]
UKBASS on SKY TV
On Friday 28 th June 2013 Nigel Horsman , Andy Ford from SKY TV’s tightlines and I all fished together on Zen2 . The plan was to produce a nice little fishing film with an emphasis on highlighting the worrying issues concerning the current management of the species . I really hope the film helps […]
THE BASS CRYSTAL BALL
I’m pretty sure that most anglers look forward to their fishing sessions with eager anticipation and part of that feeling is about NOT knowing what you’ll catch, or indeed IF you’ll catch. Anticipating what you might catch Perhaps if we were able to predict what we were going to catch, how many fish and how big they […]
NEWSFLASH: Better Protection of EU Bass Stocks Might Just be Imminent.
After years of decline in our breeding bass populations, it finally seems the message we have been taking to those that determine fisheries policy might at last be getting through and emergency measures to limit bass landings might be imposed. In fact the momentum is strong enough throughout Europe that the efforts of the Angling […]
Wrestling Big Girls at Dawn.
There was a different blog post lined up for today but given the reports coming in from the crusaders in the Cape we thought an update to the progress of the BASS members currently in USA was in order. John Morgan has been updating the visitors to The BASS Forum to give a flavour of what is […]