angler caught cod survey is (BULL)

I for one will not partake in such a pointless exercise, if you want to know why just Google (north sea cod stocks) you will find hundreds of examples of the powers that be ignoring the advice of scientists (experts in there field).
So I ask what would my input be worth?
These reports will be only filed in the wastepaper baskets of the E.U .

Fisheries ministers of the 27 countries of the European Union had their traditional all-night pre-Christmas bargaining session on Tuesday night to assign catch quotas for the region’s beleaguered fisheries.

And in a continuation of another tradition, they ignored scientists’ advice and increased the catch of North Sea cod that will be allowed in 2008 by 11%.

North Sea cod has been under such stress that independent scientists have asked the ministers repeatedly for a ban on fishing it. The ministers have not increased catches in recent years, but have also not stopped them.

source: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13105