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Ian Cloke
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Today it is the most popular sport in Britain, with an estimated 1.4 million people a year dropping a line to try their luck.
But new rules proposed by bureaucrats in Brussels pose a major threat to the future of fishing – and the livelihoods of charter skippers across the county.
Under the proposed scheme, thousands of oceangoing cruisers, yachts, private motor boats and even canoes would have to become registered fishing vessels if, even once a year, someone puts a line over the side of the vessel to catch their supper.
Today it is the most popular sport in Britain, with an estimated 1.4 million people a year dropping a line to try their luck.
But new rules proposed by bureaucrats in Brussels pose a major threat to the future of fishing – and the livelihoods of charter skippers across the county.
Under the proposed scheme, thousands of oceangoing cruisers, yachts, private motor boats and even canoes would have to become registered fishing vessels if, even once a year, someone puts a line over the side of the vessel to catch their supper.