Aaron

Help the Rich – Subsidise Fishermen

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After years of overfishing fish a group of wealthy fishermen switched to fishing for subsidies. The madness of taxpayers money being shifted from productive to too often unproductive and often illegal uses is shown by Greenpeace’s excellent report on where fishing subsidies in Spain are going. You can read it @ http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/oceans/exposed-organised-crime-sea-20111002 Tens of millions … Read more

Overfishing’s Prime Culprit – Seals Eating Fish?

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Is the dreadful state of fish stocks in the North Sea due to seals? Some people think so. Struan Stevenson MEP, for honourable reasons has long thought seals deserve a large part of the blame. Way back in 2002 Struan Stevenson MEP was Chair of the European Parliament’s Fishing Committee. The Committee asked just what … Read more

A Clever Ad – A Night At The Cinema

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I like good advertisements. There are not many. David Ogilvy created many of them. This is a clever and fun ad: http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=V53G5TUF It will probably make me order one.

Is Europe’s Fishing Policy A Failure? Some Doubt

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I am enjoying an exchange on linkedin’s CFP reform group about the CFP. There is an interesting exchange  on whether the CFP has failed. I think it has. In a former professional life I asked MRAG this question. They came came up with an answer. Since the last reform, profits and stocks have declined. Fleet … Read more