Fight for bass ban - Round 2 - VERY IMPORTANT!!!

[John D]

Hello all fellow sea anglers.

Please be aware that the fight to preserve our bass ban is back on strong.

There are suggestions that the Department are close to making a decision to change the law.

Sunday Times article.pdf

Please see the Sunday Times article attached and consider the following:

The amount of money a commercial bass fishery could make has been grossly over estimated and as far as I know John Quinlan was misquoted with those figures.

Foregin fleets are not landing tonnes of Irish bass or anything like it. This is a damned lie or a major misrepresentation of the truth - whatever way you want to word it.

The commercial fleet is demanding a bass quota but that system is very likely to be disbanded. If the Department change the law and at the same time the quota system is done away with it will be too late - THE BASS WILL BE VIRTUALLY ALL GONE!!!

Stay 'tuned' for further notice and please have your pens, paper & e-mails ready and waiting.

Yours hopefully and sincerely,
John D.

[bigballs]

By this years catches there gone anyway!!!!!!!!

[Mr Mackerels]

how can we help

[John D]

To help you could write to and/or e-mail Minister Coveney (preferably write) pleading that he doesn't change the current bass protection laws. Let him know that millions of euros in angling tourism will be lost as will jobs.

Also let him know that opening the commercial bass fishery will see the bass stock almost wiped out probably in the space of a year all for a measly one off return of a few thousand euros for a small handful of people.

Let him know that contrary to the information he's being fed foreign trawlers ARE NOT landing tonnes of Irish bass.

Try keep the letter short and to the point. If you get nothing else but the above points in that will be great.

If you're e-mailing I think it would be best to send the same e-mail twice to both of these addresses:

simon.conveney@oir.ie & simon.coveney@agriculture.gov.ie

If you're writing I think it would be best to send the same letter twice to both of these addresses:

FAO Minister Coveney (PRIVATE),
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine,
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.

AND

Simon Coveney TD,
Main St,
Carrigaline,
Co. Cork.

Yours hopefully & sincerely,
John D.

[Tom H]

It never stops..

[John D]

Excellent point Tom H - it doesn't ever stop!

Mind you there are times when we need to act more than others and now is one of those times.

So can everybody please write and/or e-mail.

Yours hopefully,
John D.

[donal murphy]

I dont understand why dont we farm the bass and leave the wild ones alone, because anytime i buy bass the origin says " farmed in greece" so why cant we farm them here and if the trawlers want them, they can farm them like whats already being done here with the likes of trout and salmon

[corbyeire]

id say they are too slow growing in these waters for farming

aside from all the other issues i have with farming