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Fishing article in Daily Mail

Stuart Brookes

Stuart Brookes

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Just read an article in the Daliy Mail today on page 7 by Andrew Levy highlighting how illegal fishing is having a devastating effect on the fish stocks. It also had interviews withe the RPSCA in regards to swans being caught and killed for the pot by EE's. Now don't start accusing me of being racist as I am not but thought it was a balanced article and for once didn't show anglers as the bad guy. Have a look and make your own mind up.
 
Yes, and in the hometown of the Dangling Crimes, too. Another similarly minded paper, the Telegraph, ran a story today. No mention of Otters of Polish or East European extraction, though. Only to be expected, I suppose, what with an election looming....



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wi...-for-pillaging-fish-and-swans-from-river.html



Immigrants blamed for pillaging fish and swans from river

Gangs of immigrants have been blamed for "pillaging" fish and even swans from a city's river.


11:03AM GMT 23 Mar 2010

Animal welfare officers in Peterborough, Cambs. have launched an investigation following the discovery of butchered swan carcasses and a ''sudden'' decline in fish stocks

Fishermen say Eastern European migrants are responsible for the incidents along the River Nene.

The Peterborough and District Angling Association have reported plummeting numbers of bream, carp, pike, tench, chub and eels from the eight miles of waterways they control.

Five Polish men were caught illegally fishing in the area over the last week, and signs have now been erected in multiple languages to deter the poachers.

Andy Jackson, Secretary of the Angling Association, said: ''Many of the waters that we control are being systematically raped and pillaged by migrants.

''Migrants see it as their right to carry on doing what they have been doing in their homeland.

''Many view the countryside as a 'free' source of food. The fish stocks in the River Nene and Ferry Meadows have declined markedly in the last six years.

''There is a definite correlation between this and the influx of migrants into the city.''

Conservative Peterborough City Councillor Marion Todd has appealed to members of the public to help catch swan killers and illegal fishers.

She said: ''I think people who come to this country - whoever they are - need to be educated that this is wrong. Even the Queen is now barred from eating swans.

Swan poachers were considered to be committing treason until 1998, as they are protected by the crown, but the offence now carries a £5,000 fine or prison sentence.
 
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

I understand that the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family are keen on Swan and German to boot...think it might be them?
 
the decline of fish stocks by taking for the pot is only part of the problem, but it is going on, make that no doubt!
i doubt the guardian would ever do a story like this...lol
 
Doubtless there is some very nasty sh*t going down fish- and swans-wise, but the thinking brain still quails at the "This Week's Moral Panic" / "Today's Daily Discontent" modus operandi of certain papers. Last week, I seem to remember it was killer Meow Meow / Mephedrone. Still, some have people to dupe and so sell their grubby papers. I wonder what tomorrow will bring? Imported killer TB?
 
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Terrorists! They've been suspiciously quiet recently.

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The Chairman on Thursday

Gotcha! It's the Argies - they want our Falklands, and now they want fish - OUR fish (not perfectly truthful, but the self-appointed Angling Ambassadors to a wannabe Government and their mouthpiece rags might be able to spin the hard of thinking into believing it).

Blahdy 'Hand of God' Argies - let them eat beef!


As ever, an apoplectic

B.B.



Argentina offers "fishy" solution to inflation

Monday, March 22 04:02 pm



While most countries use fiscal and monetary policies to control inflation, Argentina has rolled out a fleet of fish trucks to ease the pain of consumers whose food bills are increasing every month.

The government's latest bid to confront rising prices consists of about a dozen mobile fishmongers selling cheap haddock in poor neighbourhoods near the capital, Buenos Aires.

Trucks decorated with blue waves and the slogan: "Now There's Fish for Everyone" are pulling up beside local parks. They have been greeted by thousands of people, who stand in long lines to take advantage of steep discounts.

Argentines are the world's biggest consumers of beef and many profess to not liking fish. But with beef prices up 30 percent over the last three months alone and the subsidized haddock selling at around half the normal price, the fish is hard to refuse.

Under cloudy skies, hundreds flock towards the trucks as they roll into Ituzaingo, on the western edge of Buenos Aires, where many families can no longer afford steak.

There are grumbles about the quality of the fish, which is presented in brick-like squares, and complaints about having to wait for hours as around 5,000 people line up over the course of the day.

"It has a weird colour, but what do I know?" one woman told reporters upon receiving her portion.

LET THEM EAT FISH

President Cristina Fernandez launched the dozen or so trucks and visited one herself to buy some fish. It was the latest in a series of her administration's improvised attempts at controlling inflation, which is casting a shadow over a tentative recovery in Latin America's third largest economy.

Opponents say the haddock program will not work and call it a gimmick meant to shore up Fernandez's support in towns around the capital where she has traditionally been strong.

Her policies are geared towards stimulating economic growth, which is expected to pick up this year after being constrained in 2009 by the global economic crisis. But high inflation is taking a toll on Fernandez's popularity.

Economists expect Argentina to close 2010 with consumer prices up more than 20 percent for the year. The government, accused by analysts of manipulating economic data, will likely report much less than that.

But labour unions here are already demanding wage increases of 25 percent.

Earlier government strategies aimed at forcing prices down included export curbs on cattle ranchers and attempts at negotiating cheaper beef prices with meatpackers and supermarket chains.

As local consumer prices soar, Argentina's growth has lagged that of other major economies in the region.

The country's 2010 budget proposal forecasts gross domestic product to expand by 2.5 percent during full-year 2010. That compares to official forecasts for 6 percent growth in Brazil and 3.9 percent in Mexico.

INFLATION? WHAT INFLATION?

Rather than openly acknowledge inflation, Argentine officials refer vaguely to a "reaccommodation of prices." Fernandez rejects orthodox ways to fight inflation on grounds they would stifle growth.

Wall Street has accuses the government of playing semantic games rather than confronting the problem with measures such as reducing government spending, which Fernandez refuses to do.

"If they want less spending, let them come and govern," she said recently in a challenge to opposition politicians getting ready for the 2011 presidential election.

The fish trucks were mobilized last week and are scheduled to continue until Easter.

During the period of Lent, the weeks of repentance leading up to Easter, fish consumption rises in the mostly Roman Catholic country.

"The program is good but very slow," Alicia Carrasco, a bespectacled, middle-aged woman said as she waited for a numbered ticket to allow her to go stand in the haddock line.

"It's half price," Eduardo Baumtrog, leaving the station with two white plastic bags full of frozen fillets, said with a weary smile. "Lets see what it tastes like."
 
I did the "auf wiedersehen pet" thing in the early 80's & the Germans treat us with contempt, they blamed us for all the crime & we had to go out as a group for safety..& we didn't even kill their fish;)

Boot on the other foot the Poles & EE's are doing much the same thing work wise & from what I've seen their treatment is hell of a lot better than ours was.
So before you start knocking the Brit's from your ivory towers, in the real world we ain't so bad..:)
 
The Chairman on Thursday


I think it might cheer some of the sterner, more literal-minded sorts here if I told them that here in The Hamsters we kill everything (particularly politicians, celebrities and flyfishers). Without exception and with extreme sanction. It's for their own good, and they thank us for it afterwards.


As ever,

B.B.
 
Ivory towers!?:eek:
There'd be none of those in my parish.

I only knock the knockers, where ever they be born.
 
The Chairman on Friday


Or as Frank Vincent Zappa (an American, but I am willing to forgive him for this failing) once said: "I am an Equal Opportunities Basher.", meaning that ALL deceivers and liars and Bad Guys got it in the neck, irrespective of class, creed or race. Very sound thinking, for an American.


As ever,

B.B.
 
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