Kezza wrote: OK - so here we have someone that is providing serious balance to important discussions and several posters are trying their level best to "alienate" and dumb-down their input with barbed innuendo…..it's truly embarrassing. I suggest taking a long hard look and re-read what you have typed before hitting the POST REPLY button…..or perhaps ask a grown up for help!

When I started this topic, my question was if anyone had noticed/heard anything about the cameras.

To be honest, the question was largely redundant for me as I'd known for quite a while what was going on and was only giving others a heads-up and maybe a point of interest.

At no stage did I hint at any illegality, just a querry.

Please be assured that if the situation had or had not required reporting, I would have done so, (or not), quite a while back.

Geez! I'm sure we didn't have so many grumps when I first joined this site.

corosanta wrote: Geez! I'm sure we didn't have so many grumps when I first joined this site...

I don't think it's about grumps it's more about the handful of posters who invade anything vaguely related to the topic with a very blinkered one-eyed jaundiced view of the commercial sector, government and the MPI.

Glaucus is doing his best to give some balance and it would be great to have MPI quite involved in these discussions so we can get a balanced view. Like any conversation, it requires a level of respect and if a few people can discover a bit of that somewhere in their tackle-box, we have a very good platform to really understand what is going on.

I for one would rather do that than listen to the continual bleating of a small minority about topics where they appear to be long on assumption and very short on substance.

have you noticed Glaucus any difference with trawl nets, have they introduced anything remotely beneficial to help reduce the undersize fish catch over the years you have been an observer?

is there a reason why they wont change to trawl nets like they are now using over sea which have escape sections of net for undersized fish???