I have emailed them direct:
Dear Sirs,
I have read via forum messages of the current fishing of spawning bass off the Guernsey coast. How sad that we can never learn from past mistakes (Cod nearly extinct in North Sea). I have read that certain individuals see nothing is wrong because of the huge volumes of bass. Do these people think this will last forever? Cod were once so plentiful off the Eastern coast of the USA that it was said you could walk over the backs of them to shore. These fishing grounds collapsed due to the pressures from commercial fishing. As a diver of many years experience off the south and south-west coast of the UK I see less and less bass every year; and much smaller too! Pair-trawling commercial boats have been partly responsible I’m sure but having read what is going on off the coast of Guernsey then this too is having an impact. My small token of protest is not to visit Guernsey until I can see sensible measures being taken to protect spawning bass. Kill all the parents whilst they are trying to reproduce, that’s a sensibly managed fishing policy!
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