The Southern Inshore Fishery and Conservation Authority’s Technical and Advisory committee (TAC) will be discussing the benefits of increasing the minimum landing size for bass in the region, which covers Dorset, Hants and the Isle of Wight, at a public meeting at Bournemouth Town Hall at 2pm on Thursday 17 November where a paper setting out the argument for a higher minimum landing size will be presented by BASS member, Nigel Horsman.
The TAC will then report to the full Southern IFCA committee at their next public meeting at 2pm on Thursday 15 December at Poole Civic Centre. The full committee have the power to make a byelaw to change the bass MLS in its area. Again, the meeting is open to all members of the public, although in this instance only as observers, not as participants.
The Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society, with support from the Angling Trust, will be leading the call for the committee to raise the minimum landing size to 48cm – the size needed to ensure that a bass taken at any time of year should have spawned at least once.
For further details of the BASS presentation check out their website HERE
