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| Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (John Gulliver @ Dec. 11 2003,11:28)]Just as an example, if the average weight of Ellis' sharks was 30 kilos (i.e half the weight of the biggest fish), the total weight would be almost 4 tonnes. |
Using your guesstimate - that would mean Mr Ellis caught about 21.5% of the annual UK catch in 2 days.
Of course, the figures are not worth too much consideration as they compare a targeted catch against the annual by-catch from other fishing practices.
A better comparison would be the catch against actual stocks but I guess we will never know that figure - at least until it becomes nil
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I think I will contact DEFRA again to find out what information I (we the public) am entitled to have access to. I was a little shocked when I phoned DEFRA first time - the switchboard put me straight through to someone who listened to my question and then started talking about database extracts and reports.
We will soon need quotas on every type of sea creature there is in order to protect them from over exploitation.
Maybe cannibalism should be allowed - that would solve an awful lot of the planets problems.