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		Common Fisheries Policy to regulate recreational anglers Wednesday, 4th February 2009 Letter to London local newspapers Dear Editor, I am writing with a warning to all recreational anglers. The European Commission wants to regulate you - as part of the Common Fisheries Policy! Under plans unveiled to the European Parliament last week, sporting fishermen will be required to purchase licenses and to log every fish they catch. Now fisherman will have to pack their laptops or logbooks with their rods and suncreen. Europe wants to make a Sunday sitting on the canal feel like another day at the office. Why? Where is the need for this cumbersome scheme? The Common Fisheries Policy has already wiped out what used to be Britain's best renewable resource off our coasts. Now recreational anglers are to be penalised like the British fishing fleet. It is so sad that European bureaucracy has come to this. You really couldn't make it up. Yours Sincerely, Syed Kamall MEP