So long and thanks for all the fish.

It’s a good thing Douglas Adams didn’t based this book in our time because not long from now some of our most loved fish species will be gone for good. Cod is 70% below what it needs to continue breeding in our waters. The solution was to allow trawlers to carry on as normal.

Charter boats in Scotland no longer fish for Cod and instead target Ling because Cod is so scarce. In the last twenty years we have raped our seas beyond repair but still the needs of the few (trawlers) outweigh the needs of the many.

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution last week recommended that almost a third of UK waters become marine reserves protected from fishing to save threatened species. The European Commission had called for closure in an area that accounts for 40 per cent of cod catches.

Instead, the most far-reaching immediate concession to reverse the decline in stocks was an agreement for crews to use nets with a larger mesh size to allow more juvenile fish to escape capture.

The demise of Cod is creating rippling effects that are being felt all over the North.

Ben Bradshaw is a complete imbecile who should have listened to his own scientists who, for the last three years, have wanted a complete fishing ban in certain areas of our waters in the hope of saving our much loved fish.

Make the most of your cod and chips because between Global Warming and over fishing it won’t be long now before you’ll never eat another Cod from our waters!