Month: May 2011

Political sanity and fisheries briefly  joined together  for a brief moment on the 12 May. Whilst Brussels Members of the European Parliament backed calls for the doubling of fuel subsidies for fishermen, sanity dawned in London.  247 members of the British House of Commons backed a motion to end fish discards.  MPs Zac Goldsmith,  Nicholas … Read more

On 12 May Members of the European Parliament asked the European Commission to allow fishermen to get more money from taxpayers to pay for their fuel bill. And despite an election only be due  for a few years, most of them backed a cross party call increase fuel subsidies from  30,000 EUR a year to … Read more

Social Network Analysis helps show how people are connected. An interesting application of this way of looking at things is shown on the BBC.

Many years ago I worked for a politician on the european parliament’s fishing committee. He was steering through the Parliament’s report on a piece of EU legislation on fishing net seizes. I learnt a lot. When the law was adopted I remember being told by the civil servant who wrote the law that ‘it will … Read more