'Arctic Sunrise' ( Greenpeace Ship ) supporting UK fishermen ... contd. below

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Arctic Sunrise - a GREENPEACE ship arrived in Lyme Regis in May 2013 to support local fishermen under threat from the ‘unfair’ quota system.

 

Arctic Sunrise docked in Lyme Bay in the afternoon of Wednesday 29th May where it was met by a flotilla of local boats.

 

“Greenpeace has brought the Arctic Sunrise to Lyme Regis as part of its UK campaign to support endangered local fishing communities who are under threat from a quota system which unfairly favours the most powerful and destructive boats."

 

“Under the current disastrous policy, boats under 10 metres long, which make up 77 per cent of the UK fleet and provide 65 per cent of our fishing jobs, only receive 4 per cent of UK quota.”

 

Lyme Bay fishermen Angus Walker was among those to greet Arctic Sunrise.

 

He said: “For as long as there have been people living along this piece of coastline there has been fishing – we have historical evidence tracing it back more than a thousand years.

That tradition of local fleets employing local people is now vanishing."

 

“The fisherman with a boat under 10 metres in length has become an endangered species due to EU and UK policies."

 

“This is mismanagement on a monumental scale, and we welcome Greenpeace’s support in trying to sort this mess out.”

 

*30th May 2013 at 3.30 a.m

A new political agreement between ministers in the UK and the European parliament ( Brussels ) was thrashed out and news filtered through --

( details to be arranged )

 

" Our fisheries minister must bring about change in UK waters, giving our small-scale sustainable fleet a fair deal. !!"

 

" It gives British Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon a very clear mandate to turn around UK fishing by rewarding those fishermen who operate sustainably and feed back into the local economy.

This agreement means Benyon must at last give the low-impact sector a Fair Catch "

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