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Hello World ... this is my inaugural blogging experience with interesting news items. This first item will deal with fisheries, and I suspect that some in the future will do the same.


The fisheries industry have become increasingly restricted by the governing structures established. At given times there have been emphasis on different approaches, with centralized management being the preferred approach for many many years. This was following the lack of over-all management which had gone before it.


Many management schemes have integral inefficiencies, such as restricting harvesters to land fish if the by catch of particular species are to large. This forces the harvesters to discharge volume which could otherwise be processed. Yet, regulators do not want it brought to land, albeit the resource that has been harvested will not just go back into the water and help any rebuilding as such.


On Friday 20th of November 2009 Scottish officials will argue with European Union Fisheries Council that such regulations should be changed in such a way that the harvesters can have greater freedom to bring in what they catch. The meganism suggested is that in order to let the harvesters bring smaller fish in, is to reduce the quota they are allowed.


This blog inspired and sourced from the Financial Times - see story

Fishermen urge EU to end dumping