Tope Consultation - We need your help - Time is running out - Dont sit there thinking this does not concern you - as an angler it does so please reply

Right lads we need your help. Anglers need to reply to the Tope Consultation Plan currently being undertaken by DEFRA.

Ive had this email from Leon at Sea anglers conservation network and feel it needs a wider audience.

Would those of you from this forum who have replied to defra please put their names below. Anyone who hasnt replied by the closure date will be deleted from the forum - So there ;)

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email from Leon

To all SACN Members,

Just a gentle reminder that time is running out for the opportunity to respond to the DEFRA consultation on Tope, which closes on 20th of this month.

As the value of shark fins soar in the Far East, it is important that as many people as possible respond to the consultation to drive home the need to protect this species from the growing market for tope products.

So whether you currently fish for tope or not, please try to get in a response supporting option 2, and convince your club and friends to do likewise.

If this opportunity is lost, and a directed fishery is developed whilst tope remain unprotected, future regrets will be too late.

DEFRA are particularly anxious to attain any data that can be used to illustrate the value of the Recreational Tope fishery, and how that has been affected by the decline in large tope, and the potential of the sector should tope populations be recovered, so information about personal expenditure, or from club records etc will be welcomed.

For details of the consultation, and other information, please see the menu to the left of the SACN main website, which includes links to Save Our Sharks which contains much additional information and discussion on the forums there.



Regards - Leon Roskilly

Sea Anglers' Conservation Network (SACN)

http://www.sacn.org.uk/