This is worrying

• Guest 725

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  30 September 2012     18:58193613
  #1      
  100 cod left?
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9546004/Just-100-cod-left-in-North-Sea.html
  
  Something must be done.
• Guest 761

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  30 September 2012     19:23193614
  #2      
  Looks like scampi and chips would be a much better choice.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  30 September 2012     19:29193616
  #3      
  how do they work out how many there are,it is not as if the fish will wait around to be counted?
  
  didn't realise they grew to 6 foot, you'd need a fair size deep fat fryer.
• Guest 725

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  30 September 2012     19:44193618
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  Oh,er, hang on it seems like I might have been a tad hasty. There's a few more than 100 cod left. In fact it's more like 21 million more.
  
  http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2012/09/18/sunday-times-cod-claim/
  
  Reminds me of another panic some people tend to worry about but I can't think exactly which panic.
• Guest 716

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  30 September 2012     20:32193627
  #5      
  It`s October the 1st............
• howard mcsweeney1

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  30 September 2012     20:35193630
  #6      
  no doubt the sunday times will say there is always a margin of error in the figures!!
• Guest 700

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  30 September 2012     20:55193631
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  We have been told for years there are decreasing numbers of cod in the sea, yet people still want to buy it! I am at a loss to understand why - do they not know there is other good fish to eat?
  
  There are many other types of fish, most with more flavour (ie haddock, mackerel) to name two, and why isn't there a complete ban until numbers get back to a normal level ?
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• Guest 703

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  30 September 2012     21:15193635
  #8      
  No need to worry Kath, it's all a wind-up.
  
  According to the fisherman in this report there are more cod now than there have been for 30 years, probably because of the EU fishery limits that Philip wouldn't like to admit to
• Jan Higgins

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  30 September 2012     21:25193637
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  As per usual statistics and their dubious wording are used to push a point, so give a prejudiced view.
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• Guest 725

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  30 September 2012     22:02193640
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  You're missing the point and is a lesson in what to take for facts as reported in the press. The original 100 cod left story featured in the Mail, Telegraph, Sun and other outlets and was taken as gospel. Instead of fact checking the papers merely cut and pasted their copy onto an unsuspecting and gullible public. Much like the latest story from the BBC tonight on the news that climate change would lead to fish shrinking in size - it's totally untrue but some choose to believe all this tosh. It wasn't a joke by the Telegraph it was what they considered to be good journalism until they realised it was wrong. They even put a rider at the bottom of the article.
  Not sure what Ray is talking about when he mentions me and eu fisheries limits.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  1 October 2012     08:43193672
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  surprised the telegraph got taken in, not surprised the mail and sun did as it made a good headline.
• Guest 671

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  1 October 2012     09:58193677
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  Whether the link is a joke, miss-leading or dubious, what isn't any of those things, is the fact that professional fisherman are still catching fish, such as cod and throwing them back in the sea, dead.
  
  No good for the fish, no good for the fishermen, no good for us and no good for the UK.
  
  Kath.
  Huge trawlers go to sea, once or twice a year and hoover up millions of tons of mackerel, they will go the same as cod soon.
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• Guest 671

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  1 October 2012     10:15193681
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  For the record, I don't believe the stories, that there is a world shortage of Cod.
  
  Go to the fjords of Norway or watch the King Crabbers in the Bering Sea on TV, they use big cod as bait for their pots and even the US, has big stocks of cod.
  
  But, we do have a shortage here, only because we allow the French, Belgium and Spanish fleets, to land illegal undersized fish and over quoted amounts, from UK waters, into their countries. Whilst hammering our home grown UK fleet, with penalties and even prison.
  
  EU. madness
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