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Scotsman.com Business - Sea fishing industry - Move to ban fish dumping
Jo Borg, the European fisheries commissioner, wants to ban the dumping of discards - unwanted fish and other marine organisms.
He said it would entice fishermen to take from the sea only the fish that could be marketed.
WFF Scotland welcomed the move, but fishermen's leaders said a discard ban would be unenforceable..
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Conan , Here / 7:34am 29 Mar 2007 There is no such thing as 'dumping of discards' as everything alive that is taken from the sea temporarily and put back in, dead or alive, is turned into food and new life in very short order within the endless food cycle that is the ocean systems.
Mind you, a pan of those small fish, crustacians and the like, are delicious and shouldn't be thrown away - I'll take them..
Chris , Edinburgh / 11:13am 29 Mar 2007 But how will it be enforced? Scientists rely on information from fishermen about their discard rate.
ScotsLass58 , Red Ken's Toon / 11:56am 29 Mar 2007 "He said it would entice fishermen to take from the sea only the fish that could be marketed.
Does he know of some ingenious new device that fishermen can fit to their nets that will ensure only correct sized fish enter their nets?.


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University of York press release
Media Information: James Barrett +44 (0) 1904 433938 or David Garner +44 (0) 1904 432153 Researchers trawl the origins of sea fishing in Northern Europe For decades the study of fish bones was considered one of the most esoteric branches of archaeology, but now it is helping to reveal the massive significance of the fishing trade in the Middle Ages.
New research co-ordinated by archaeologists at the University of York will spotlight the earliest development of Europe's sea fisheries and, given the continuous expansion of sea fishing since the Middle Ages, the ultimate origin of today's fishing crisis.
The three-year project, financed by the Leverhulme Trust and also supported by HMAP, the historical branch of the Census of Marine Life, will involve researchers across Northern Europe.
It builds on earlier research by the project team which discovered that extensive sea fishing began in Europe 1, 000 years ago.
A major shift from freshwater to sea fishing was due to a combination of climate, population growth and religion.
Dr James Barrett, of the University of York's Department of Archaeology, who is co-ordinating the project, has pinpointed the century between 950AD and 1050AD as the critical period when this fisheries revolution took place.

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Government subsidies drive deep-sea fish depletion
Saturday an international team of economists and scientists called for a ban on government subsidies that drive deep-sea trawling.
Biologists say the practice is destroying the world's fisheries.
'Industrial fisheries are now going thousands of miles, thousands of feet deep and catching things that live hundreds of years in the process - in the least protected place on Earth, ' said Elliott Norse of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute.
'Deep-water trawlers or draggers account for about 80% of the bottom fishing catch from the high seas, ' explained a statement from SeaWeb, an ocean conservation group.
'In a few hours, the massive nets that drag the bottom and weigh up to 15 tons, can destroy deep-sea corals and sponge beds that have taken centuries or millennia to grow.
The trawlers target fish such orange roughy and grenadiers for food, and sharks for the cosmetic industry.
These fish are generally long-lived, slow growing and late maturing so their populations take decades, even centuries to recover.' .
Seaweb has this to say about the orange roughy: .
Orange roughy are the classic example of boom and bust deep-sea fisheries.

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