the story was headlined with pictures of boatmen chucking fish overboard as discards and then with the usual tags about something should be done to stop this waste of fish
then lobbyists came in and would you believe it used the argument that all our fisheries are mixed fisheries and that they didnt want to stop discarding perfectly good fish - in fact they wanted to increase their quota so they could catch more of the fish they want, thereby discarding even more perfectly good fish
rte failed to make any comment on how ridiculous this chaps logic was or even contary to general thinking from europe or other boat lobbys or indeed the scientific community
i know i shouldnt be surprised by this but i thought their PR wing would be green washing this far better, but instead its lets go back to doing the things we did and now know were very wrong and keep doing it
But she did say at least the disgarded fish were stored neat and tidy before been dumped overboard. 
