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By the way Andy, if you know Bass spawn between those dates & you, understandably, don't like catching them pre-spawn... why are you fishing for them then?! :duh You could always start the ban with "the man in the mirror".Andy Davies said:I noticed on a thread for Ireland that there is a closed season for bass from 15 May to 15 June to allow bass to spawn. I find that I frequently catch females during this time that are full of eggs and am really gutted that this fish didn't spawn.
I am not convinced by fish farming however Bass is usually farmed in the Med (Greece), I really don't know much about bass farming so I can't comment.Mr. X said:Also, Huan, isn't fish farming environmentally unfriendly and the product often unhealthy (that is the impression I got from earlier discussions, a recent meeting with a former fish farm owner, a recent BBC Countryfile & the Salmon radiation scare the Christmas before last).
YES! They are short sight most of the time (whatever happened to pension reform? habeous corpus? tough on crime? invasion of Iraq?:mute...). The EU cod quota for this last year is half the entire population of cod :head - the Telegraph had several long, detailed articles on this last year, e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/23/ncod23.xmlfearthespear said:... Can the government really be so short sighted?! ...
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