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Summary of Points raised by attendees: at Scarborough 10th June
1) Take the Solway Firth that is a large area, where many anglers from the North East travel to. How much restriction will be put on RSA
2) When is Marine Bill likely to become law? If there is a change of Government will this project cease to exist?
3) How will the impact of Angling on a specific area be determined?
4) Why is there so much secrecy? The impression I get is that I will tell you and then you will create a MCZ.
5) Who is going to police these areas?
6) How much of out coastline are we going to give up?
7) Surely if there is going to be a coordinated network they are going to be very close together?
8) What about the MCZs in Portugal, haven’t they failed?
9) You have said that there are going to be High and low level areas. What will be the different restrictions?
10) Where in the Marine Bill is Recreational Sea Angler defined?
11) Fish are migratory. How will you establish which species are going to be in an MCZ, for how long etc?
12) If you relate the 700m offshore extent of the Flamborough NTZ to the remaining coast to create MCZ it will be a No No with many stakeholder groups.
13) Will there be permits for activities within an MCZ such as bait digging?
14) If you expect cooperation from RSA Stakeholders then you are going to have to start taking action against the Big players.
15) Are you going to consider the best practice from other international Projects? For example the South Australian Project which banned all commercial activity and only permitted RSA and the environment is thriving.
16) Are you going to incorporate the MCZs into a Golden Mile?
Points raised at Newcastle Meeting 11th June
1) Are NE doing this in total? So you are going to find three RSA reps between the Thames and Berwick
2) DEFRA did not do any good with Stakeholders involvement in the RSA Strategy consultation. There is a lot of clubs in NE who are stakeholders.
3) You are working with DEFRA. We submitted a 37 page response and we haven’t heard a thing. Are you going to do the same?
4) Will the MCZ cover the shore or will they be out to sea?
5) Have you ever thought what the people would do if they could not fish?
6) How is ANOB involved in the MCZ Project?
7) You want to gather data. What is going to be done with it?
8) There is a lot of history up here especially with SSIs it goes very very deep.
9) If the catch improves will you alter/review the MCZ? Alternatively if there is no catch will you have to extend the MCZ?
10) Would the MCZ stop trawling?
11) The commercial guys are going to have their own way. How are you going to communicate with the clubs?
12) Anglers are loners. 60% of anglers are not affiliated. How are you going to communicate with them?
13) Should we give details to Cefas to support the argument that trawling has caused an effect?
14) As far as I am concerned bait digging should be considered separately.
1) Take the Solway Firth that is a large area, where many anglers from the North East travel to. How much restriction will be put on RSA
2) When is Marine Bill likely to become law? If there is a change of Government will this project cease to exist?
3) How will the impact of Angling on a specific area be determined?
4) Why is there so much secrecy? The impression I get is that I will tell you and then you will create a MCZ.
5) Who is going to police these areas?
6) How much of out coastline are we going to give up?
7) Surely if there is going to be a coordinated network they are going to be very close together?
8) What about the MCZs in Portugal, haven’t they failed?
9) You have said that there are going to be High and low level areas. What will be the different restrictions?
10) Where in the Marine Bill is Recreational Sea Angler defined?
11) Fish are migratory. How will you establish which species are going to be in an MCZ, for how long etc?
12) If you relate the 700m offshore extent of the Flamborough NTZ to the remaining coast to create MCZ it will be a No No with many stakeholder groups.
13) Will there be permits for activities within an MCZ such as bait digging?
14) If you expect cooperation from RSA Stakeholders then you are going to have to start taking action against the Big players.
15) Are you going to consider the best practice from other international Projects? For example the South Australian Project which banned all commercial activity and only permitted RSA and the environment is thriving.
16) Are you going to incorporate the MCZs into a Golden Mile?
Points raised at Newcastle Meeting 11th June
1) Are NE doing this in total? So you are going to find three RSA reps between the Thames and Berwick
2) DEFRA did not do any good with Stakeholders involvement in the RSA Strategy consultation. There is a lot of clubs in NE who are stakeholders.
3) You are working with DEFRA. We submitted a 37 page response and we haven’t heard a thing. Are you going to do the same?
4) Will the MCZ cover the shore or will they be out to sea?
5) Have you ever thought what the people would do if they could not fish?
6) How is ANOB involved in the MCZ Project?
7) You want to gather data. What is going to be done with it?
8) There is a lot of history up here especially with SSIs it goes very very deep.
9) If the catch improves will you alter/review the MCZ? Alternatively if there is no catch will you have to extend the MCZ?
10) Would the MCZ stop trawling?
11) The commercial guys are going to have their own way. How are you going to communicate with the clubs?
12) Anglers are loners. 60% of anglers are not affiliated. How are you going to communicate with them?
13) Should we give details to Cefas to support the argument that trawling has caused an effect?
14) As far as I am concerned bait digging should be considered separately.