Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society

Fighting for Bass and Bass Anglers’ since 1973

Bass regulations 2016

COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2016/72     – of 22 January 2016 [Fixing for 2016 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters, and amending Regulation (EU) 2015/104]   Article 10 Measures on Sea bass fisheries 5. From 1 January to […]

Bass on Countryfile BBC1

The BBC will be airing a short piece on the bass issue for Countryfile due to be broadcast on Sunday 24th January .Bass Anglers Sportfishing Societies, N Horsman will be featured giving a view from an anglers perspective. Amongst others said to be featured are the MCS,NFFO, plus an interview with the EU Commissioner. [SOS […]

Net Gains: Gross Injustice

  A year ago in a small Cornish harbour I watched a commercial fisherman sorting a catch of bass. Such was his bonanza that his gillnets appeared to be more flesh than monofilament. This windfall for the mostly part-time potters went on for weeks. The huge pre-spawning aggregations of bass that had shoaled up from […]

SOS Bass outraged by recent EU Council of Ministers decisions on Bass

[SOS Bass team]  If you share this sense of outrage, we encourage you to join us and send an email to the EU Fisheries Ministers and Officials asking for a number of these measures to be urgently revised. Remember, you are a major stakeholder in the EU Sea Bass fishery – get your voice heard! […]