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tjj wrote: An update from the Irish Wildlife Trust and its good news ...
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180112IPR91630/new-fisheries-rules-add-a-ban-on-electric-pulse-fishing-say-meps
New EU rules on how, where and when fish can be caught, were voted on Tuesday. MEPs inserted an amendment to ban the use of pulsed electric current for fishing.
The new law - updating and combining more than 30 regulations - would provide for common measures on fishing gear and methods, the minimum size of fish that may be caught and stopping or restricting fishing in certain areas or during certain periods. It also allows for tailor-made measures to be adapted to the regional needs of each sea basin.
An amendment calling for a total ban on the use of electric current for fishing (e.g. to drive fish up out of the seabed and into the net) was passed by 402 votes to 232, with 40 abstentions ...
The inclusion of an amendment was passed by 402 to 232 (40 abstentions). So please understand that an amendment has been included in a submission for a new law. That new law does not exist. It is a submission. The UK will not have any say in it at all.
You must understand that no new law has been passed. A new law "would" provide... blah blah.
The new law will allow for regional "tailor-made measures to be adapted to the regional needs of each sea basin".
So no total ban on anything. Everything is negotiable on a regional basin-by-basin challenge.
"However, it would be possible to deviate from these regional rules, via a regional fisheries multiannual plan or, in the absence of such a plan, via a decision by the EU Commission. Member states could submit joint recommendations to this end, and MEPs ask them to “base their recommendations on the best available scientific advice”."
We all know what the "best scientific advice" is regarding anything to do with the Food, Drink and Drug Industry. It is whatever you pay scientists to say. That is... scientists employed by the Food, Drink and Drugs Industries. "There is no evidence that smoking cigarettes can harm blah blah...", "Thalidomide is a perfectly safe blah blah...", "Agent Orange is a relatively harmless weedkiller blah blah...", "We estimate that there will be no significant impact of fish stocks blah monitoring blah..."
Our elected members are refusing to take back control of our seas, our fisheries and our national borders (talking about our marine borders here). What on earth makes people think they will do the right thing on pulse fishing. It is all "negotiable". May has already agreed it and Nicola Sturgeon tried to sell Scotland's fishing to the EU the day after the Brexit Referendum. The EU is about making everything "negotiable" for corporations.
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