Shark Trust Angler Recording Project

[Rob]

From the Shark Trust website:

 

The Angler Recording Project

 

 

 

 

Recording the Southwest's Natural Heritage

 

If we want to establish sustainable fisheries in Europe, we need to understand as much as possible about the distribution and abundance of our species'. For commercially important bony fish such as cod this is already reasonably well known. For the sharks, skates and rays however we know much less. To help with this, the Shark Trust is asking anglers to record their catches of all sharks, skates and rays (including dogfish) in the southwest, including Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Avon and the Scilly Isles.

 

[Matt]

As much as they mean well theres the same old concern commercials will exploit the data hopefully any info released will be regional only and not more detailed.

[Rob]

 

OK let's sit on our hands and do nothing! Maybe I will start doing more coarse and game fishing again!

[Graham Nash]

I hope the dogfish section has plenty of room!

[Paul J]

I guess it's easier to do this now we have a database which can be filtered by species.

It's getting people to report fish that'll be the issue, even then it'll only be a sample rather than a representative number of fish caught.

If we do this perhaps a seperate list should be produced so not to blur the current records/trends?- just thinking out loud

 

PJ