samonwalkabout wrote:Intresting link i happend on
[url]http://www.fishonline.org/information/methods/[/url]
some of the netting practice is shocking nevermind the Dynamite and Cyanide

"The following is a list of fish available to the UK and European consumer which have been given a rating of 5 and which MCS believes are most vulnerable to over-fishing and/or are fished using methods which cause damage to the environment or non-target species. The list is in alphabetical order not order of threat or impact. ...
1. Alfonsinos or golden eye perch
2. American plaice
3. Argentine or greater silver smelt
4. Atlantic cod (from overfished stocks)
5. Atlantic halibut
6. Atlantic salmon (wild caught)
7. Black Scabbardfish (trawled from Northern Stocks)
8. Blue ling
9. Brill(beam-trawl caught from the North Sea)
10. Chilean seabass or Patagonian toothfish
11. Dogfish (inc.catshark, nursehound)
12. European Hake
13. Greater forkbeard
14. Grey mullet
15. Grouper
16. Haddock (from overfished stocks)
17. Ling
18. Marlin (blue, Indo-Pacific & white)
19. Monkfish
20. Orange roughy
21. Plaice (from overfished stocks)
22. Rat or rabbit fish
23. Red or blackspot seabream
24. Redfish or ocean perch
25. Roundnose grenadier
26. Seabass (trawl caught only)
27. Shark
28. Skates & rays
29. Snapper
30. Sturgeon
31. Swordfish
32. Tiger prawn (except organically farmed)
33. Tuna (except dolphin friendly,pole and line caught yellowfin and skipjack)
34. Turbot(from North Sea)
35. Tusk or torsk
36. Wolfish"
er, so just about every species of fish found in supermarkets (in abundance) are being over-fished. conservation attempts from anglers are proper and good to hear about and practice, but in the end they are only going to protect the fish that the anglers personally like to go for (who maybe only fish for sport?). the separation that seems to exist in angling between fishing for food and for play (that came about through modern commercial fishing) is a strange thing.
