"Good work Hugh and your team - I fully support your important fight - fish only once a fortnight for me."
"I absolutely support Hugh's Fish Fight. It seems mad that we are throwing away thousands of tons of prime fish at a time when fish stocks are suffering and people are going hungry."
'It is a bizarre flaw that we humans often think we have unlimitedresources to exploit, there is surely no question that this abhorrentwaste must stop now and that we take responsibility not only for thefuture of our fishing but also the oceans that we rely on"
"I'm right behind Hugh's Fish Fight. It's mad that we're wasting thousands of tons of prime fish."
"The Fish Fight is important. Damned important. It is so fantastically easy for us to make a difference by doing a small something and so appallingly easy for us to be complicit in a complete disaster by doing a big nothing. So what’s it to be then?"
"Of course it's short-sighted to throw away thousands of tons of fish at atime of diminishing resources. But there's a moral dimension which weshouldn't forget too. We have a responsibility to the other species on ourplanet - we have the power to nurture them or annihilate them. To slaughtermillions of living creatures off our island's shores merely in order touphold a bureaucratic diktat is an act of brutality of which we should allfeel deeply ashamed."
"Everyone at Fishy Fishy wholeheartedly supports the Fish Fight campaign. We work very closely with our local fishing communities who are choosing to carry out their jobs every day with a sustainable approach, working as responsibly as they can. This means working with the environment rather than against it. Meanwhile, the same communities are being forced, by law, to throw perfectly, edible fish back into the sea, dead. It's madness."
"My Mum always used to say to me 'Don't worry there are plenty more fish in the sea' But sadly this is no longer the case. Hugh's Fish Fight makes a lot of sense - get on board."
"My philosophy when casting a line has always been 'Eat what youcatch'. I love eating fish and its bloody good for you.You dont have to turn vegetarian or vegan to solve the problem ofdepleting stocks. Eat fish that are harvested in a sustainable wayand the balance of our dependence on the ocean will bemaintained. Take only what you need. Let the young fish grow and therefore life in the ocean and on land will prosper."
"Just a quick one to ask you to join Paolo, Jamie Oliver and the main man behind THE FISH FIGHT CAMPAIGN – Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall ... Get more info, pledge your support and sign up to this important campaign right here at www.fishfight.net."
"At a time when pressure on the world's resources is at an all-time high,and when we are quite literally exhausting the oceans, it is sheer madness that crazy laws require us to waste so many fish. All it takes is political will. We can so easily stop the waste, and rein in the factory fishing units. If we do, our oceans, our real fishing communities and the environment will prosper. If we don't, we will hit a wall. It is a no-brainer."
"Our marine environment is under severe pressure yet hundreds of thousands of edible fish are caught every year that never make it to our tables. They are dumped, discarded, wasted, and to do so is not AGAINST the law; it IS the law. Contrary to cliche there are not plenty more fish in the sea. For our marine environment and the wildlife it supports to have any sort of sustainable future this practice must stop and this law must change."
"Fish is a big part of my diet to stay in shape, so I have to be a responsible consumer. Throwing good fish back into the sea makes no sense. I support Hugh's fight to end discards, and will encourage all my Italian friends and family to do the same!"
"Being a massive fan of fish and seafood, its criminal the amount of fish that is wasted every day around the world. I know its not easy to tackle it in one go but thats why we all need to join the Fish Fight now!"
"I had no idea about this bizarre practice until very recently. Sometimes I think the world is going bonkers. It is utter madness. I fully support Fish Fight. Go Hugh, go."
"Our seas were once twenty times as productive as they are today. Experience elsewhere in the world shows that with the right rules European waters could rapidly rebound, but a mafia of short-term fishing interests profits from the current shambles and stands in the way of change. For a future full of wild fish, everyone needs to add their voice until politicians can ignore the scandal no longer."
"Quotas designed to protect endangered fish stocks around Britain's shores have been introduced for laudable reasons, but they can be blunt implements with unintended consequences. Here the unintended consequence is truly terrible: the dumping back in to the sea of tonnes of dead fish. We need to do something about this, whether it be hammering at the doors of politicians to change policy, or hammering at the doors of our local chippies to get them to put sustainable fish like mackerel on the menu."
"Humpty Dumpty said that 'words mean what I choose them to mean’ - but if this policy is ‘conservation’ then I’m the Mad Hatter."
"Half the fish caught in the North Sea are thrown back dead. Please help stop this waste by signing the petition atwww.fishfight.net"
"It isn't fair on fishermen or fish eaters and it certainly isn't fair on fish. A policy that makes it an offence NOT to throw away thousands of tonnes of good food is clearly a broken policy. You can't conserve fish stocks by throwing dead fish back in the sea..."
"I am fully behind Hugh and the Fish Fight. The EU policy makes no sense at all and clearly needs to be reversed. Our precious planet’s resources need to be protected from silly silly laws like this. Go for it and add your support. Not only does it make sense but ooh, isn’t Hugh lovely?!"
"As a Naturalist I should have understood the unintended consequences of my fish-buying actions more clearly, but thanks to Hugh & his team with this marvelous campaign I now do, and only those fish species whose stocks are both healthy and properly managed, such as mackerel and pollack, will pass my lips from now on! I implore you all to do the same too.”
"Examples of humanity's lack of regard for the planet and its natural resources abound, but making it compulsory for fishermen to throw already caught and killed fish back into the sea has to be one of the craziest. It's high time this outdated and wasteful policy was overturned and more creative and effective solutions found to protect our dwindling fish stocks."
"The EU law of discarding fish is a nonsense – a waste of the North Sea’s precious resources and fishermen’s entirely edible catch. Let’s use our common sense – keep the fish and ditch the policy."
"I fully support Hugh's campaign. The EU's quota system is absolute madness and needs to change. We are the stewards of this earth and it is our duty to pursue sustainability in every way we can."
"How the EU expects sane people to support any aspect of their overgrown bureaucracy when they pursue such daft policies as the staggeringly unnecessary discarding of fish is beyond me. Far too many fish are taken from the seas even without this appalling waste."
"All waste is bad but stupid, cruel waste is particularly shameful. We have to start caring for this world and stop throwing it away. Discarding perfectly edible fish just to satisfy beaurocratic expediency is stupid, cruel and wasteful and we should stop it now. I completely support Hugh’s campaign and hope you will too."
"The sea was always thought of as infinite in its ability to supply us with food.... my father always talked about going to Yarmouth as a little boy, when they caught 1 million herrings a day and I remember going fishing with my dad in North Wales for sea trout. We'd fish at night and the trout would leap in the moonlight, their scales flashing silver. It was the most beautiful sight. I went back ten years ago and there are no fish left in the river."
"Fish are the last wild food that people routinely eat but if we don't start to have a lot more respect for our shared marine environment that's not going to last. A million tonnes of discarded cod a year is one thing - what about everything else that's being dragged up in those nets and thrown back dead? A healthy ocean makes sense for everyone, so please help make the politicians think long term and allow our fish to flourish."
"There is no fisherman, or angler, or politician in the world, who can explain why dumping perfectly good, edible fish, overboard - to rot on the sea bed - makes any sense, to our environment or our economy."
"I don't know anything about fishing or fishing policy but this legislation seems mental. Please put your weight behind these people and help make Brussels listen."
"The fish in the seas that surround us have for millennia been one of our most precious resources. Now we have reached an unprecedented point of crisis. Please support Hugh in his campaign to cast off the shackles of this insane law and start restoring sustainability to our marine environment."
"Yet another set of silly badly thought out rules chronically damaging the lives of fishermen, fish and the environment – a reform of this ridiculous legislation is LONG overdue."
'The devastation of fish stocks in the North Sea as a result of 'throwing back' is a monstrous stupidity and waste. Good sense in the present - as well as compassion and concern for the future - demands that it stop immediately.'
"The fishing policy as it stands is plainly crackers. And we can change it SO easily and stop this catastrophic waste"
