FLUSHING – Dutch fishermen are not activists. It’s not in their nature. They have rarely or never time. Peaceful protest in Rotterdam, which competed Saturday nearly fifty cutters, indicates how much water has increased them up to their necks.
The bone of contention is the aanlandplicht being phased in over the coming years through European road. All fish, too small, unmarketable, must soon take place. The idea behind this is that the catch of small, undersized fish must be reduced. Fishermen must be more selective.
The aanlandplicht fly them to the throat, as well as the appointment of an increasing nature reserves in the North Sea and locations for wind farms. Where natural areas are less or may not be fished more in wind farms and fisheries is completely taboo.
Fishermen are entrepreneurs, especially those who are still left. They have the right to struggle against measures to email their ideas are absurd. The aanlandplicht will not help nature and stocks according to them. Now undersized fish may still be put on board, there is still some chance of survival. If all fish must be landed, surely all die.
Chef
It is a truth that is undeniable, but there is also a downside . British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in 2010 launched a campaign to catch fish to a halt. He finally managed to convince European politics.
Especially in the bottom fishing for plaice and sole, the mainstay of the Dutch North Sea, there is bycatch. That can not be otherwise. Fish living at the bottom of the North Sea in all shapes and sizes together. That is natural, but that does not mean that there are no technical measures are possible to minimize bycatch.
Do you fishers how big their catch, they do not like to answer . The Dutch research institute Imares reported in a study in August 2014 that on average 40 percent of the caught fish weight in the mixed North Sea ‘discard’ or unwanted by-catch. The plaice and sole fisheries in particular, this percentage is higher.
Fishermen are used to having so many fish overboard put back as they burn huge amounts of diesel were used with their heavy gear. The big oil – tens of tons per week for the large cutters – was to be paid by low oil prices. Nobody seemed there to stand still, until 2008 and following years, oil prices almost doubled.
Pioneer
Since last year, oil prices lower again, but it is thanks to the energy-efficient electrical gear, pulskor that the Netherlands has a cutter. It is striking that this innovation did not come from the industry itself. Technical office Verburg from Holland Colijnsplaat began over twenty years ago as a pioneer in the development of this technique. It is the ministry came to help the business in 1998 by acquiring an electrical gear for a trial. The initiative was different bled to death.
Fishermen had nothing to do with the pulse trawl which for many afterwards revealed their economic salvation. Outside pressure, whether that is now economically or politically, so can have a beneficial effect. Fishing for spawning, pregnant plaice was also for many years the most natural thing in the world to mass merchandisers under pressure from activist groups like the World Wildlife Fund decided not in the spawning season – also rather meager -. Plaice more to take off
the aanlandplicht forces the sector to change course again. Numerous studies in recent years have been exported to more selective fishing methods. There are also results achieved with it. The challenge is to continue to seek a balance between catching as many undersized marketable fish and reducing the still large catch. Fishermen will therefor yourself what should look in the mirror with, if possible, support from politics and nature and environmental organizations.
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