[jambutty]

“Commercial fisheries” implies that the fish are caught for consumption and I have no problem with catching fish for food. Even so a barbless hook still punctures the fish’s skin leaving it open to disease although being commercial fishing that point is not relevant because the fish are killed.

This issue rests on two points. Legal and illegal fishing.

If it is illegal fishing by anyone not just eastern Europeans then the full force of the law should be brought to bear.

If it is legal fishing then the British angler has no grounds for complaint. And certainly not to complain that they have fewer fish to catch.