See below, I would strongly suggest sending email as below and sharing with everyone.
Dear Sea Bass Savers
Please email the EU Commission and tell them that you want them to take immediate emergency measures to stop the fishing for sea bass on spawning areas:
Bernhard.Friess@ec.europa.eu
Update/Background Info:
The Bad News: the EU fisheries Ministers failed to agree on any measures to cut fishing for sea bass when they met on 15 December. The rumour is that the French were not prepared to accept any reduction in the amount of sea bass they can catch. Complete disregard for the legal requirement to manage the stock sustainably by following the scientists' advice.
The Good News: our Fisheries Minister, George Eustice MP, and DEFRA have taken the magnificent unilateral step of asking the EU Commission to introduce emergency measures to stop the pair trawling that takes place each Winter/Spring in the sea bass spawning areas:
"In line with the commitment made at Council, the UK stands ready to work with the Commission and the other Member States involved in this fishery to take measures to protect this stock from the start of January 2015. Given the urgency of the situation, we are hereby making a reasoned request, under the terms of Article 12 of the CFP Regulation (1380/2013), for the Commission to adopt emergency measures to alleviate the serious threat to the sea bass stock. To reduce fishing pressure by protecting the spawning aggregations the UK proposes the adoption of measures to close area VIIe to pelagic trawlers targeting bass during January to April 2015."
The EU Commission now has to decide within the next few weeks if it will act on the UK's request. The French commercial fishers are angry about the UK's request and will be vigorously lobbying the EU Commission to persuade them not to take action.
Let's tell the EU Commission that we care deeply about this and that they need to listen to us, not the owners of the 60 or so French pair trawlers that are destroying the sea bass population for short term profits!
Best wishes, David Curtis