and there will be people who will be serving time for not paying there household tax

I hope the judge sleeps easy. I certainly won’t – I live around the corner from the man

Don’t worry…them damn fishermen will face the full rigours of justice for daring to contravene EU law.
The cheek of them, refusing to throw dead fish back under the waves preferring to give them away free to grateful people.

To be more accurate, he sentenced a guy to six years for defrauding the state of over a million euros by evading import duties on the garlic as he pretended it was something else. What sentence would you suggest the man deserved?

THE SAME ONE MICK WALLACE GOT!!!

The purpose of fish quotas is to maintain healthy stock, if you give it away for free you’ve killed the fish anyway. Fishermen should be more responsible as it’s their own livelihood they are threatening. Remember that fishing is akin to hunting (catching and killing wild animals as opposed to farming them) and we all know what happened to mammuth.

The fish were landed to highlight the insanity of EU law, which demands that these fish are thrown back into the sea, dead. Catches always land a variety of fish, some species in the catch will be over quota and thus must be dropped back into the sea. By the time a catch is brought on board and sorted, fishermen will be left with many dead, but perfectly marketable fish, which they cannot land because they have already caught their quota of that particular species. A serious re-think of EU fishing law needs to take place in order to stop this disgusting practice. These protesting fishermen are trying to protect stocks and their own livelihoods by pointing to the illogical bureaucratic nonsense forced upon them. Throwing a valuable source of food overboard is a disgraceful act. Landing it makes perfect sense. Well done. We need to treat our oceans with more respect; by using more sustainable methods of fishing, ending the disgusting practice of discarding fish and protecting the fishermen who bring a valuable food source to our markets. Yummy fish. Nom nom nom.

@giovanni, a lot of the quotas are there not to maintain stocks but to maintain a (falsely ) high market price for the fish, cod for instance, as with most E.U. directives this one is thought out by a bunch of pen pushers who have probably never even been anywhere near a fishing boat let alone know anything about fishing, the quotas ‘demand’ that you only catch certain species of fish at certain times, that in its self is an impossibility. even if you were to fish with rod and line you dont know what species is going to take your bait, so how do they expect trawler nets not to catch one species or another?. how stupid is a rule that makes the fishermen throw back dead fish that are perfectly saleable? how is throwing back dead fish going to help maintain stocks? there are massive advances in the ‘farming’ of some fish species, but there will never be enough farmed fish to meet the needs of the population. i whole heartedly agree with Stephen Goods post ,that it is not the fishermen that need to change or the fishing methods ,its the interfering gombeens at the E.U. a lot of these so called regulations have little or no regards for the way that industries work and not just in fishing the same sort of interference is prevalent in farming, and most other industries, having to discard perfectly edible food stuffs while 1/3 rd of the world is in food poverty or starving just so they can keep their ‘books’ straight and keep prices artificially high, we should be prosecuting them not the fishermen.