The Common Fisheries Policy is Being Extended to Anglers

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1/21/2009 | Daniel Hannan

[1066AD]

The Common Fisheries Policy is being extended to recreational anglers

Posted By: Daniel Hannan at Jan 21, 2009 at 17:31:18

I've just done something which I do very rarely: I've attended a Committee of the European Parliament. Regular readers will have gathered by now that I think there are altogether too many EU laws.

[1066AD]

I know there's anglers here on FR.

The Swiss, I believe, recently banned catch and release.

[null and void]

ping

[Lurker]

Unreal

[BallyBill]

....Sporting fishermen, who go out in small boats or fish from piers, will be required to purchase licences and to log every fish.

Earlier in the article he calls this asinine, I AGREE!

[Beagle8U]

Without catch/release there could be no size limits and no closed seasons unless everything was closed.

How could they possibly manage their fisheries?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- Tacitus, Roman Senator and historian (a.d. 56-115)

[TYVets]

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

- Tacitus, Roman Senator and historian (a.d. 56-115)

If the European Commission gets its way, they will be forced to land every tiddler they catch, and to count their quota against the national one.

The nature of government has not changed since 56 AD.

[texmexis best]

I have caught thousands of trout since 1972. Not one was kept.

These people are nuts.

[Beagle8U]

“Gee look Dad, I caught an endangered Yukabob fish, saw it on Tee Vee, only three left in the world. Throw it in the bucket son, Kings rules ya know.”

[girlangler]

Absolutely unbelievable!!!

However, there are those who would like to see the same thing happen here. PETA, Humane Society of the U.S., etc.