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Listed below are comments made by aardvarkterror between Thursday, 20th November 2008 and Thursday, 20th November 2008.

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A future for cod? 08:28am on 20 Nov 2008 No cod in the Peterhead fish and chip shop shock horror. Indeed, the item on the TV news last night made me laugh. It is like going into Chez Leon to find no roast chicken on display and saying it proves that poultry is extinct in Belgium.

But the situation is no joke and I know fishermen who will be forthright that the problem is long-term gross over-fishing - no excuses. The Danes vacuum-cleaner approach over decades (catch everything in the sea, whatever size or species, and reduce it to fish-meal to feed pigs!) must have done terrible damage. The Spanish and French wiped out their own fish and have been allowed by the UK/EU to devastate Scottish waters also. The Spaniards' illegal and unchecked habit of catching and eating baby fish is a particular factor. The financial pressure on the fishermen can be horrendous. But the Scottish fishermen must take their share of responsibility also. Clearly from the report some of them are doing so. The contributor who observes that fisherment may not be best placed to judge has a point - it is like the false assumption that farmers must be good managers of the environment. Some are, many have not been.

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