Monkfish!

A  Monkfish  trashing about on the gutting table of a trawler. Monkfish is in the news here quiet a bit as a fisherman refused to discard  his catch over quota and landed over 4 tonnes of it and gave it away for free.
No one can argue that throwing perfectly good fish back into the sea is wrong so what is the alternative? Having a free for all is hardly an option and is a short term solution. The redistribution of quotas throughout member states would be an non runner with most  member states I think.
I think the scientific assessments that is used to determine the quotas  needs to incorporate more of the fishermen's catch and activity data. A radical approach would be to limit boats time at sea and allow them to land what they catch along with improved methods of releasing juvenile fish.
Monkfish is a lovely tasty fish, I have a tasty recipe for it and I will be adding a recipe page here soon.