More discards!

First mentioned in a previous post, the subject of Fish Discards raised its head again over the weekend in this Sunday Telegraph article.

It seams that ‘we’ (the UK government) are again bending over backwards not to upset other fishing countries under the EU Fisheries policy. The UK allows Belgium and French trawlers to fish right up to the coastal edge of the UK, but at the same time DEFRA is increasing the landing fish size that UK trawlers can land from the very same fishing grounds! Guess what? Most of the fish is going to other countries!

It seems that this is yet another example of the UK implementing rules in excess of what the EU requires with other countries benefiting from our over zealous legislation.

I wonder what DEFRA fisheries minister Jonathan Shaw is going to do about it?