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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ensure that the BASS Minimum Landing Size limit of 40cms, postponed from its implem entation date of April 2007, is immediately imposed as agreed in consultation with the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society and other interested parties. More details
Submitted by Trevor Edmead of Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society – Deadline to sign up by: 02 June 2007 – Signatures: 113
More details from petition creator
Two years of painstaking negotiations to ensure the continued survival of this country's premier sea fish are left in tatters after Ben Bradshaw gave into fierce commercial pressure and postponed his decision to impose a 40cms MLS for Bass effective from April.
Sustained overfishing by the commercial sector and the illegal use of inshore gill nets have decimated this once prolific fish to mostly undersized fish. If the current situation is allowed to continue then we could see Bass stocks succumbing to the same pressue as experienced by cod & haddock stocks.
The agreed impelementation of the 40cms MLS, with the option of an increase to 45cms possibly in 2010, would have guaranteed that the fish could be allowed to spawn at least one and thus begin the process of imnproving both the size and number of Bass in our coastal waters.
We now see that Mr. Bradshaw could not sustain his commitment to ensuring the continued survival of the Bass. Let's see some positive action from a government that appears to listen to a slient majority with greed as their only motivation for stopping this MLS introduction.
Current signatories
Trevor Edmead, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Andy Martin
- Rich Daniels
- Stephen Butler
- Jon Williams
- David Anthony Cooling
- Leon Roskilly
- Mike Western
- David Bourne
- Steve Pitts
- Matthew Spence
- Jonathan Rundle
- dale robertson
- Christopher Goddard
- Nicholas Noble
- Philip Andrew Hollington
- Jon Morris
- Tom Ozanne
- Norman Berry
- Martin Corbett
- John Abbott
- Roger Baker
- Sean O'Sullivan
- mark jakins
- Sean Barraclough
- Gwyn Davies
- stephen evans
- Dave Munden
- Ian Holmes
- Phil Hyde
- Anthony Newson
- Steven Binckes
- les milne
- Leigh Davies
- craig wilcox
- Bill Walden
- Caleb Zunino
- John Brooks
- David Andrews
- Mark Page
- . Roger Bradbury
- Andrew Davies
- Paul Walker
- Alan thomson
- Spencer Moreton
- Andy Marquis
- Tony Allen
- S.H.Gould
- MR S J TAYLOR
- Treve Opie
- barry luxton
- Paul Owens
- shaun Dickson
- ADRIAN FARLEY
- Eoin Donnellon
- Julian Fox
- Bob Tetley
- TonyBlewett
- Alun Lovell
- James Basey
- Martin Bone
- Kevin Aston
- Paul Jennings
- Stephen Wetherick
- Darren king
- Malcolm Elliott
- Paul Bryder
- Peter Payne
- alan outen
- Jimmy Sayer
- David Cains
- Francis Parfrement
- Graham Monkman
- Karen Perrow
- John Henderson
- Tim Hoy
- David Nightingale
- Laurence Egerton
- John Brown
- Flynn Hall
- Steve Easter
- Liz Easter
- Wayne Clemens
- KEVIN ANTHONY JAMES
- Stuart Athay
- Richard Ferre
- jason coulthard
- pete wilkins
- Ian Nolleth
- Martyn Athay
- Julie Athay
- Norman Athay
- D. Mayers
- mark richardson
- Graeme Crowder
- John Turpin
- Pam Lukeman
- Edward Miners
- john tucker
- matt Casserley
- matthew barter
- John Thomas
- Paul Edward Bowen
- Christopher Harrison
- KEVIN JOHN HEARN
- Ivor Baker
- Tony Hooper
- Robert P. Paulley
- Colin Falconer
- Luke Edwards
- John Stonebridge
- alan hinds
- Neil Gibbett
