Eating an Elephant Faster – A Bass Campaigning Update.
A year ago I interviewed Nigel Horsman and David Curtis at the BASS AGM and asked what we needed to do help get better protection for our bass. Nigel likened our huge task to eating an elephant but reminded us it was achievable if we approached it one bite at a time. A year on […]
Motion on unfair bass restictions for anglers is backed by MPs
The debate on the effect of EU measures on our bass angling took place in Parliament yesterday (11th Feb). The motion was passed without opposition. Although such back bench debates in themselves cannot bring direct change, the fact such a debate occurs reflects the ever growing demand for effective and fair means to restore our […]
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 […]
Eating an Elephant to Save Our Bass
The BASS blog team speak to the two men running our ongoing campaign to reduce bass landings by 80% The key points of the interview: It has taken many years to get where we are now, but the recent introduction of limited measures is at least encouraging. We have a long way further to go […]
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 […]