Post by highplains on Jun 28, 2007 18:23:24 GMT -1
Our sea angling colleagues are campaigning for a mile wide coastal strip around the country to be designated commercial fishing free, (subject to certain exception) the "Golden Mile" being exclusively for the use of anglers. Just think how this would benefit the sea trout stocks as well as the salmon.
They are asking that we using the attached letters, or preferably variations on them, and send them to our MP's.
This could result in real benefits to our sport and I ask you to support the campaign.
Dear MYMP,
(You can find contact details for your own MP at www.theyworkforyou.com )
You probably know that there is great concern about the amount of overfishing that now occurs, and that many fish stocks are in deep trouble.
What you probably don’t realise is how badly the UK’s Recreational Sea Fisheries are being impacted.
With over 1 million anglers spending £538 million a year (giving the sector a £1billion value overall) in England and Wales, thousands of businesses and livelihoods servicing the Recreational Sea Angling sector depend on good availability of large fish close inshore.
And studies indicate that if inshore fish stocks were restored, participation in this worthwhile outdoor activity, and the value of the sector would be increased several times.
It is a fact that anglers, particularly shore anglers and many small private angling boat owners, fish very close to the shore.
Although there are difficulties in managing EU fish stocks, the UK has complete management of our waters out to 6 miles, and other nations only have limited access to our waters within twelve miles.
So, management options to at least fix our inshore Recreational Sea Fisheries are well within reach.
What anglers are asking for is a ‘Golden Mile’, just a narrow strip, to be given special protection against netting and trawling, which will go a long way to conserving and restoring inshore fish stocks and marine habitat, benefiting not only anglers, but inshore fishing vessels fishing further out, as well as contributing significantly towards the conservation of our valuable close inshore marine habitat which includes spawning and nursery areas.
Please discuss the attached with your parliamentary colleagues, and please take this issue up with the Fisheries Minister.
There is probably no other measure which is most wanted by the millions of Recreational Sea Anglers and potential anglers, than implementation of the Golden Mile.
Yours sincerely,
An Angler
They are asking that we using the attached letters, or preferably variations on them, and send them to our MP's.
This could result in real benefits to our sport and I ask you to support the campaign.
Dear MYMP,
(You can find contact details for your own MP at www.theyworkforyou.com )
You probably know that there is great concern about the amount of overfishing that now occurs, and that many fish stocks are in deep trouble.
What you probably don’t realise is how badly the UK’s Recreational Sea Fisheries are being impacted.
With over 1 million anglers spending £538 million a year (giving the sector a £1billion value overall) in England and Wales, thousands of businesses and livelihoods servicing the Recreational Sea Angling sector depend on good availability of large fish close inshore.
And studies indicate that if inshore fish stocks were restored, participation in this worthwhile outdoor activity, and the value of the sector would be increased several times.
It is a fact that anglers, particularly shore anglers and many small private angling boat owners, fish very close to the shore.
Although there are difficulties in managing EU fish stocks, the UK has complete management of our waters out to 6 miles, and other nations only have limited access to our waters within twelve miles.
So, management options to at least fix our inshore Recreational Sea Fisheries are well within reach.
What anglers are asking for is a ‘Golden Mile’, just a narrow strip, to be given special protection against netting and trawling, which will go a long way to conserving and restoring inshore fish stocks and marine habitat, benefiting not only anglers, but inshore fishing vessels fishing further out, as well as contributing significantly towards the conservation of our valuable close inshore marine habitat which includes spawning and nursery areas.
Please discuss the attached with your parliamentary colleagues, and please take this issue up with the Fisheries Minister.
There is probably no other measure which is most wanted by the millions of Recreational Sea Anglers and potential anglers, than implementation of the Golden Mile.
Yours sincerely,
An Angler