Bass Ice Tragedy
‘We could lose and entire year group’ says BASS. “A cruel trick of nature threatens the first positive signs of a recovery in the recruitment of bass stocks” says John Leballeur, Chairman of the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society’s Bass Restoration team. “Following three disastrous years when bass recruitment seemed to be failing, 2008 saw the […]
Bass Slaughter
We are losing our bass stocks A combination of unfolding circumstances is leading to the rapid destruction of the country’s inshore bass stocks and a loss of the valuable Recreational Sea Fishery, along with thousands of jobs in the Recreational Sea Fishing sector. Already under great pressure, and with a legal minimum landing size set […]
BASS Challenges Minister’s Smokescreen
Minister’s Parliamentary answers duck the issue. BASS, the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society, has rounded upon the answers given in Parliament by the Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Shaw, to Bill Wiggins the Conservative Shadow Fisheries Minister, seeking information about recent scientific evidence pointing to a recruitment failure in the UK bass stock. In a statement issued in […]