Feb 27 – GSD: Chief Minister “In A Tangle Over Fishing”
The GSD has said that the Chief Minister’s reaction to its recent press release on fishing is “just another attempt to divert attention.”
The GSD has said that the Chief Minister’s reaction to its recent press release on fishing is “just another attempt to divert attention.”
The latest statement from the Opposition on the enforcement of the law against fishing with nets shows that they have no policy on anything except “misleading and confusing public opinion” says Number Six.
The Opposition has today pointed out that ‘the Government is deliberately confusing the issue of the power station with that of the LNG storage, supply and bunkering installation.’
In response to yesterday’s criticism by the GSD of the Government’s position on illegal net fishing in the bay, a Government spokesperson has accused the party of attempting to ‘hide their desire for the illegal fishing to continue under the type of agreement they did in the late nineties’.
The GSD has criticised the Government today for ‘permitting hauls of fish to be netted illegally’ in BGTW, despite their 2011 manifesto commitment to ‘ensure the ban on the use of drift nets and other nets’.
The party touches upon recent reports of Spanish fishing trawlers hauling in nets of fish in the area of the artificial reef.