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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Petition Increase the mesh size commercial trawlers use to protect fish stocks
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Cod are a shoal species, but as individual fish grow, the number in the shoal decreases. Once a codling reaches 3lb, it is big enough to be trapped by the commercial gill net mesh and that's when a dramatic decrease in numbers occurs.
Mesh sizes need to increase to allow stocks to recover!
This petition closed early because of a General Election
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