Scottish anglers must be spitting mad

[Tanglerat]

I know I would be, if it happened here. Come to think of it, I am spitting mad even though it happened in Scotland.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... -23665725/

[doggie3131]

its a sickening article,but at least they have been caught and the fines should be big,i hope it puts all of them out of business.....on the same topic,this was put up on facebook....

just reading my local paper here in clement southend on mud . Theres a fisherman whos been told to pay a £390.000 pound fine or face jail for 3 years for flouting eu fishing quotas.... Wat a joke.... You see peodos getting less time .. This poor guys gona loose his home\boat etc. Dont get me wrong it was over by 40 tons but it was 40 tons that fed people and not just thrown back to rot our already dirty drink !!

now thats a decent fine,and i hope the f****r gets to enjoy his jailtime...

[chuckaroo]

OMG sickening tw*ts (a)
it 'made a few millionaires' im sure but i was hopin to see demands for £millions off these guys listed again, or worse..
hope they get/got them all!!

[tight lines]

they deserve everyting thats coming to them

[BigPhil]

throw the book at every one of them..... take their boats, everything.... no sympathy for one of them, know times are tough but they could have made a decent living if they fished purely to their quotas, it sounds like just pure greed!

[Creep]

breaks my heart when I read stories like that, you go out, spend hours out fishin and then relised a trawler has wiped out the place, the law needs to be tighented up on shore trawling protection of breeding grounds and as the comments on that article says how do we know its not happening on a larger EU scale... we dont... just like the uncorruptable NCT test was found TO BE corrupt the same can be said on a wider scale, though I am pleasd to see discards being done away with let the lads make money off their total catch, but a fair and protective environment need to be in place before we lose our precious fishstocks!

[hugo]

And this is the poor-mouth industry that advocates self-regulation, so they can "just put a bit o' mate on the table for the poor wife and childer." I've worked among them, they sneer at regulations like adolescents.

[yngkmd]

i remember on one episide of trawlermen on the bbc one of the captains and his kin (working out of peterhead in scotland) has just been fined about 300k (i think) for high grading, and he was crying on camera about how it was unfair and they pick on him to make an example, trying to put across he was hard done by and his livelyhood is at risk if he cant pay the fine, and its not his fault etc...my first thought was "tough titties, if the rest of us cant play by the rules at work we get sacked, same rules apply boyo, you aint getting no sympathy from me"

it really sickens me this whole "if there is money to be made then F**K everyone else" attitude that is rife these days, not just in the fishing industry but in general in every area of commerce and industry, and the bigger the company the worse they are for it, maybe im only just noticing it more as i get older though and its always been this way

[hugo]

it really sickens me this whole "if there is money to be made then F**K everyone else" attitude that is rife these days, not just in the fishing industry but in general in every area of commerce and industry, and the bigger the company the worse they are for it, maybe im only just noticing it more as i get older though and its always been this way

Spot on. It was always there before (eg salmon poaching) but big finance and modern technology started the real gold rush. Back in Galway in the 1970s, I can remember a few decent ould lads who owned wooden 50fters discussing a voluntary moratorium on trawling in Galway Bay to let it recover. Can you imagine the howls of laughter any talk like that would get from today's boat owners?

[JAMMYJOEY]

30 mile limit inside which NO commercial fishing is allowed. Anyone caught has their boat sunk at the spot to make a new reef. These clowns think it is their right to go out and abuse a resource that belongs to everyone. The E U are gonna have to introduce a complete ban on all commercial fishing activities very soon and for at least 5 years to allow the stocks to recover or there won't be any fish left in our watters. Their greed makes me sick !

[Drew]

Hope the scum are put out of business.

[kerrywez]

i remember on one episide of trawlermen on the bbc one of the captains and his kin (working out of peterhead in scotland) has just been fined about 300k (i think) for high grading, and he was crying on camera about how it was unfair and they pick on him to make an example, trying to put across he was hard done by and his livelyhood is at risk if he cant pay the fine, and its not his fault etc...my first thought was "tough titties, if the rest of us cant play by the rules at work we get sacked, same rules apply boyo, you aint getting no sympathy from me"

it really sickens me this whole "if there is money to be made then F**K everyone else" attitude that is rife these days, not just in the fishing industry but in general in every area of commerce and industry, and the bigger the company the worse they are for it, maybe im only just noticing it more as i get older though and its always been this way

I think that you may find that the boat your referring to was from Co. Down and I could tell you the name of the owner and his son, but will not do so, but save to say their surname began with a Mc. They are all at it, I have seen them landing at little piers in Donegal and some being lander at Waterfoot pier in Co. Antrim, and this is the tip of the iceberg, the Spanish are renowned for taking undersized fish and over fishing, it is a great pity we are in the EU, if we were not then we could do as the Canadians did and send out the gunboats to see them off from our waters, the Icelanders did not take nay dodo from the Fleetwood and Grimbsy trawlers and it paid off for them also.

Regards Wez