Shocking new landing data from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) shows that landings of sea bass by Cornish netting vessels have increased massively, despite fishing restrictions intended to reduce landings and allow the threatened bass stock to recover. Since 2015, in response to a crash in the
Read more →The EU Fishing Opps meeting finished at 2.00am this morning (19 December 2019). It is a bitterly disappointing result for sea anglers who have supported our campaign for a law to stop fixed netters illegally targeting bass. Our hopes were raised when the EU Commission included a
Read more →At this time of year commercial bass fishermen take advantage of the pre-spawning concentrations of bass that gather around the Cornish coast. Most recently, social media posts are featuring fishermen in St Ives with photos like the ones featured below, showing boxes full of bass being landed.
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