Something fishy

An Englishman writes in his blog :

As an occasional treat, I am very fond of popping down my local chippie for cod and chips - except that cod is becoming more and more expensive and more difficult to get hold of. My chip shop has taken to promoting coley and pollock as alternatives. The reason for this, it appears, is an EU directive limiting the amount of cod which can be caught and this is designed to protect the cod from overfishing.

All very laudable - until that is, you learn that "caught" doesn't actually mean caught, it means landed. The result is that trawlers are still catching cod in their nets - they can't really avoid it - but because they can't bring it back to port, they have to dump it - dead of course - back in the ocean. So from the consumers' point of view there is a shortage of cod, while substantial amounts of the fish are being thrown away at sea.

Somebody's been at the silly pills again!

See : http://rndman.blogspot.com/.