Guernsey Press

Fill Guernsey seas with fish

THERE ARE constant studies on the environment including air, sea, crabs, birds and trees around Guernsey. Ormers are measured and their moving paths plotted. Of interest to me is that this is a study as opposed to a long-term corrective solution. The emphasis in studying and measuring comes about because the teaching and courses at British universities do not solve any problems (synthesis) but teach how to investigate (analysis), therefore young people clutching degrees are happy measuring all the time.

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While on a recent cruise in the Mediterranean I stood on a quay and looked over the edge. It was teeming with very small fish – I mean millions – so I asked at an office and was told they are regularly released from a fish breeding programme.

So managers in Guernsey who clutch degrees and PhDs in Environment, may I suggest you totally change your mindset to a new direction. Set up a massive fish, crab, crayfish, lobster, ormer breeding programme at a location such as the aquarium. Move from measuring to massive replenishing of our seas. Let the seas around Guernsey – out to our new 12 mile limit – be seething in fish such that our professional fisherman reap the benefits as a business. In addition, let a few selected bays be off-limit to all fishing for four years as the young fish, crabs, crayfish and lobsters develop.

Such replenishment would help senior deputies who are negotiating with the EU on access to our fishing waters in exchange for our fishermen having access to European markets.

I seek no response from any deputy.

REX FERBRACHE

Address withheld.