Completely insanse waste - Fish Fight

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Haven't seen any other threads on this - its appalling that so much good fish is thrown back dead because of the way the CAP works.

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When we've been to France there are loads of 'odd' local species of fish that we try but in the larger supermarkets the range is much more limited. No local fishmonger here .

Is anyone else unable to play episode 3 on channel4.com? I can't watch it on either laptop, very odd indeed.

Over 400000 now.

Tribpot - its a conspiracy - I recorded the programme on my freeview box and 10 min sin it stopped - but the whole programme shows as being recorded .

Thank you for the suggestions to look harder in the frozen fish section. Sure enough there at the back in the neon value packs were the pollock fillets. £1.92 for 500g so I'm very happy with that.

Spent quite a long time in the tinned fish section, a bit disheartening to find so few tins with the MSC label on.

Just to say, ep 3 is now working on 4od!

@midsumerfae - i think i made it perfectly clear from my post that vegetarians don't eat fish. if you re read you will see i said i have been veggie but now i occassionally eat fish.

agreed you can get protein from the sources you mention. i've made the choice to add some fish in my diet. my issue with meat eating has never really been with eating animals as such more the meat / farming industry. for example, if a hunter / gatherer lifestyle were still possible i'd probably happily kill and eat small prey occassionally to supplement my nuts and berries. to me line caught wild fish falls into this category but it does become an issue when trawled, overfished and the amounts taken to feed the sheer number of humans are unsustainable. then again vegetables aren't perfect either. the large land tracts used to cultivate them devastates ecosystem. unless you always eat organic the chemicals used also kill living creatures. in addition root vegetable harvesting kills many living creatures. this is why jains don't eat root vegetables.

The idea behind quotas is surely to stop over fishing- but the techniques used means the only way they can meet the quotas is killing fish and throwing them back - the fishing techniques need to be addressed / updated imo.