Suddenly it’s become a bigger story, well at last the BBC has woken up!!!

I was out driving to an appointment this morning listening to that great BBC Radio 4 program Today and heard the lead item about Fish Discards!

I first posted on this back on 26th September 2007, after listening to a BBC Radio 4 Costing the Earth program about the state of the English fishing industry during which is talked about the amount of discards involved in the process of commercial fishing.

I posted again on the 3rd October 2007 about fish discards being discussed in the raised its head again over the weekend in this Sunday Telegraph article.

Now it seems that the whole of the BBC has woken up to the story!

It was interesting to listen to Fisheries minister Jonathan Shaw suggested calls to this unbelievable waste of such an important resource to increase the UK Cod landing quotas to solve the problems of discards! Surely if we are to save/manage fish resources successfully, it is more logical to reduce the number of days that fishing boats are allowed out to catch fish, but when they do go out, let them land whatever they catch in their nets and get that to market instead of letting this obscene practice of valuable fish being dumped dead back into the water. It will also allow more fish on to the market to help keep the cost down, that is of course if the Supermarkets pass on those savings to us!

Cod Prices today: ASDA £13.48 per Kg, TESCO: £13:74 per Kg.

What a mess the EU has become, Farmers paid to grow nothing; Fishermen paid to dump fish back into the water, perhaps the EU could pay me not to work!