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| "I'm right behind Hugh's Fish Fight. It's mad that we're wasting thousands of tons of prime fish." |
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| "The Fish Fight is important. Damned important. It is so fantastically easy for us to make a difference by doing a small something and so appallingly easy for us to be complicit in a complete disaster by doing a big nothing. So what’s it to be then?" |
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| "Everyone at Fishy Fishy wholeheartedly supports the Fish Fight campaign. We work very closely with our local fishing communities who are choosing to carry out their jobs every day with a sustainable approach, working as responsibly as they can. This means working with the environment rather than against it. Meanwhile, the same communities are being forced, by law, to throw perfectly, edible fish back into the sea, dead. It's madness." |
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| "My Mum always used to say to me 'Don't worry there are plenty more fish in the sea' But sadly this is no longer the case. Hugh's Fish Fight makes a lot of sense - get on board." |
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| "The oceans provide one of nature's last truly wild harvests and for us to enjoy this natural bounty in the future, we have to manage stocks properly today." |
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| "At a time when pressure on the world's resources is at an all-time high,and when we are quite literally exhausting the oceans, it is sheer madness that crazy laws require us to waste so many fish. All it takes is political will. We can so easily stop the waste, and rein in the factory fishing units. If we do, our oceans, our real fishing communities and the environment will prosper. If we don't, we will hit a wall. It is a no-brainer." |
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| "Our marine environment is under severe pressure yet hundreds of thousands of edible fish are caught every year that never make it to our tables. They are dumped, discarded, wasted, and to do so is not AGAINST the law; it IS the law. Contrary to cliche there are not plenty more fish in the sea. For our marine environment and the wildlife it supports to have any sort of sustainable future this practice must stop and this law must change." |
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| "Everyone hates waste, throwing edible fish overboard is frightful; it's allowed here to stop a black market developing. In Norway discarding white fish is banned, but the fishermen receive 20% of the value of juvenile, over-quota and by-catch fish from the government to encourage them to land it and not break the law. Why can't we do the same here?" |
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| "If bycatch fish were furred animals being thrown back dead onto land, maybe the severity of the situation would be clear for all. Throwing fish back when it could be eaten is absolutely nonsensical, heartbreaking and shows no more than utter disrespect for life. Conservation is not just about white rhinos and baby leopards, the whole natural world keeps us alive. Look after it and treasure our silvery fish! It is clearer than ever that things need taking in hand, so weigh in with the Fish Fight and punch hard." |
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| "Being a massive fan of fish and seafood, its criminal the amount of fish that is wasted every day around the world. I know its not easy to tackle it in one go but thats why we all need to join the Fish Fight now!" |
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| "I had no idea about this bizarre practice until very recently. Sometimes I think the world is going bonkers. It is utter madness. I fully support Fish Fight. Go Hugh, go." |
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"Isn't it appalling that an EU law directs that trawlermen have to throw dead fish outside their quota back into the sea to rot? Would you be happy if you went on your weekly food shop and were then told that by law you had to throw half of it away because there is not enough food in the world? This law is a nonsense. Tragically, and dangerously for mankind's future, there are now critically low levels of fish in the sea; but there must be better ways to limit the catch. If we don't sign up to campaigns like this now, our future grandchildren, starved of fish, will wonder what on earth we were doing."
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| "Quotas designed to protect endangered fish stocks around Britain's shores have been introduced for laudable reasons, but they can be blunt implements with unintended consequences. Here the unintended consequence is truly terrible: the dumping back in to the sea of tonnes of dead fish. We need to do something about this, whether it be hammering at the doors of politicians to change policy, or hammering at the doors of our local chippies to get them to put sustainable fish like mackerel on the menu." |
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| "Humpty Dumpty said that 'words mean what I choose them to mean’ - but if this policy is ‘conservation’ then I’m the Mad Hatter." |
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"It isn't fair on fishermen or fish eaters and it certainly isn't fair on fish. A policy that makes it an offence NOT to throw away thousands of tonnes of good food
is clearly a broken policy. You can't conserve fish stocks by throwing dead fish back in the sea..." |
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| "The EU law of discarding fish is a nonsense – a waste of the North Sea’s precious resources and fishermen’s entirely edible catch. Let’s use our common sense – keep the fish and ditch the policy." |
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| "There is more than one meal to be had from a fish, use the bones and make a fish soup or a fish collar curry, make the fish go further so that we all benefit - and support Hugh’s Fish Fight by signing up....Now!" |
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| "Imagine tossing out half your shopping, chucking away half your garden veg, half the livestock from our countryside, half the apples from our orchards, half the food from your plate. The current discard policy is a waste of the North Sea's resources, it's disrespectful to life, an economic nonsense and unsustainable. Join Hugh's Fish Fight now and help bring stability back to our fishing grounds." |
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| "All waste is bad but stupid, cruel waste is particularly shameful. We have to start caring for this world and stop throwing it away. Discarding perfectly edible fish just to satisfy beaurocratic expediency is stupid, cruel and wasteful and we should stop it now. I completely support Hugh’s campaign and hope you will too." |
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| "The sea was always thought of as infinite in its ability to supply us with food.... my father always talked about going to Yarmouth as a little boy, when they caught 1 million herrings a day and I remember going fishing with my dad in North Wales for sea trout. We'd fish at night and the trout would leap in the moonlight, their scales flashing silver. It was the most beautiful sight. I went back ten years ago and there are no fish left in the river." |
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| "There is no fisherman, or angler, or politician in the world, who can explain why dumping perfectly good, edible fish, overboard - to rot on the sea bed - makes any sense, to our environment or our economy." |
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"I don't know anything about fishing or fishing policy but this legislation
seems mental. Please put your weight behind these people and help make
Brussels listen." |
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| "The fish in the seas that surround us have for millennia been one of our most precious resources. Now we have reached an unprecedented point of crisis. Please support Hugh in his campaign to cast off the shackles of this insane law and start restoring sustainability to our marine environment." |
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| "Yet another set of silly badly thought out rules chronically damaging the lives of fishermen, fish and the environment – a reform of this ridiculous legislation is LONG overdue." |
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'The devastation of fish stocks in the North Sea as a result of 'throwing back' is a monstrous stupidity and waste. Good sense in the present - as well as compassion and concern for the future - demands that it stop immediately.'
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"The fishing policy as it stands is plainly crackers. And we can change it SO easily and stop this catastrophic waste"
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"You can’t NOT get behind Hugh on this. Fishery management is complicated and the quota system clearly isn't working without these negative consequences. Apart from the appalling waste of not just over quota, but also undersized species, how can scientists really give a clear view of fish stocks in our oceans when they can’t even really tell accurately what is being taken out by commercial fishing? Land everything, have total transparency and put in controls as necessary across all European fishing nations. I want my kids to enjoy the pleasures of our great seafood, it’s the best in the world, we can’t afford to waste it. So please get behind Hugh and give this massive support."
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| "At last there is someone that is taking up the real fight of discards, fishermen have been upset about this particular policy for years, it makes a total mockery of the environment and fishermen's livelihoods. We all hope that one day the lunacy of political madness will put a stop to millions of tonnes of fish being thrown back into the sea to rot and waste. The quota system is another barmy scheme doctored up with out enough proper data recorded, how can we really get a clear view of fish stocks when they can’t even tell accurately at whats truly left. Back Hughs campaign to give our fish the fighting chance they truly deserve, so that we still have fish in the sea." |
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