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From: "Judith Fletcher" <
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To:
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Subject: RE: sea angling licence
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:20:33 +0100
Dear Mr Harrison
Thank you for your email to Fiona Hall MEP regarding The Marine Bill which is currently open for consultation with DEFRA. It would be most useful if you could outline what specific parts of the Marine Bill White Paper are of concern to you and your organisation as this is not completely clear in the email.
This will help Fiona to respond to your enquiry. As this bill is still at the consultation stage it is important that your group formally respond to the consultation with your concerns. Is this something that you have already done?
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards
Judith Fletcher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Harrison [mailto
[email protected]]
Sent: 14 May 2007 11:41
To:
[email protected]
Subject: sea angeling licence
Fiona I wonder if you could look into this for me and comment so this can be published on the fishing sites. Please look at this link as well
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/north-east-coast-fishing/rsa-strategy-bulletin-board/0/ please note I have also sent a copy of this to CHRIS HUHME
April 19 2007 DAVID MILIBAND M.P.paul Harrison
Dear Sir:
After reading the letter you sent to Mr Graham Slesser on the marine-bill and reading the report on the same from your department, we the members of the Recreational sea angling (your department wording) group would like to arrange a meeting to voice our views and fears over the cost and implementation of this bill. Under the pretence of helping improve the environment and marine life of which we mostly support I feel this bill is proposed to help the government to pay for the new offshore wind farms of which it proposes to build to help sustain the power supply for the future. My thoughts firstly go to your report to where it says it would wait for Scotland to implement the law first before England so I wonder is there some division between the UK on this law, and if Scotland do not implement the charge then will England still go ahead as has been the case in other Scot/English issues. We then come to the issue of the charge being implemented to boats that fish within waters within the 12 mile radiuses from the shelf, I wonder if this will not just force boats further out so by making them enter water that could be more dangerous. If this was the case then anyone who would end up in difficulty would have to call on the lifeboat for help at further cost to the taxpayers of this country. If a boat returns and has only fished outside the limit will there be a landing charge for fish brought home but caught outside the 12 mile limit. Maybe this could be classed as Duty Free. As you have already indicated there could be some 800,000 licensed sea anglers in line for your stealth tax that may bring in £538 million per year (your report from The Drew Report) we feel this is an unjust tax on something that is done for pleasure and not gain. If you get moved to sports minister next cabinet re-shuffle would you impose a tax for football supporters to help pay for the 2012 Olympics. We understand from your letter to Mr Slessor that we only have until 8th June as a deadline for comments, I wonder if we need to get Legal help to stall this bill going through until we have more time to understand it better. As time is short I will send this to your office at DEFRA and also at Parlament as you are busy with the local Elections, I hope you find the time to reply promptly as we need to make plans ourselves before your deadline. Please note this is sent also to all opposition party’s for their comments and will be posted on our website at
http://www.nesa.co.uk/forums
SINCERELY, HARRA.
