Tuearts right boot
Well-Known Member
Good point that mate. I got talking to an independent Cornish trawlerman with a small vessel 3 years ago. (no @snorky, not as small as your vessel pal; ) He told me the main problem in commercial fishing was the huge Russian trawler/factory ships that operate off Cornish shores. These factory ships do not comply with the net sizes(mesh guage) British trawlermen use and scoop up everything indiscriminately. Young fish too small to eat will be processed into animal food and these foreign vessels are doing untold damage to fish stocks in British waters.
They were doing that in the 70's. Me and my dad were out fishing for mackeral quite often and they are pretty big close up, strange amount of ariels if I recall and all being monitored by the helicopters at RNAS Culdrose.