A Senseless Waste of Good Food?

Every day far out at sea half the fish caught in the North Sea are being thrown back dead. That’s almost a million tonnes of edible fish every year – wasted. Fishermen hate doing it, but EU law says they have to. They call it “discarding”. What would you call it? Madness? An environmental crime? A senseless waste of good food? We want to stop it. Join the discard protest at http://www.fishfight.net

On two occasions, at Brussels and Strasbourg, Bob Morris Managing Director of RG Morris & Son Ltd spoke to Roger Helmer the European Parliament representative for the East Midlands, about the ludicrous and unfair European fishing policy, in particular the returning of dead fish to the sea that the British fishermen have to adhere to!

Mr Helmer totally agreed and said it was bad for jobs, bad for the environment, bad for the fish industry and bad for Britain!

He took Bob’s complaints to the minister who said that they were well aware of the problems and would be doing something about it, that was over two years ago so don’t hold your breath!