{"id":1897,"date":"2006-08-25T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2006\/08\/25\/lobster-landing-size-increase-proposed\/"},"modified":"2006-08-25T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T11:23:00","slug":"lobster-landing-size-increase-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/lobster-landing-size-increase-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobster landing size increase proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is consulting the fishing industry, conservationists, and other interested parties on plans to conserve England&#8217;s stocks of the European clawed common lobster.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the lobster stocks are thought to be sustainable at present, there are concerns that any increase in exploitation could cause the stock to be depleted.<\/p>\n<p>The current minimum landing size is 87mm carapace length (CL), but scientific advice suggests that increasing it will allow lobsters more time to mature and reproduce, resulting in larger numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation comes after the Government decided against banning the landing of egg-bearing or &#8216;berried&#8217; lobsters earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw said: &#8220;The European clawed common lobster is one of the most valuable commercial species on the UK market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They take around six years to reach sexual maturity, and five to seven years to reach the current minimum catch size of 87mm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that increasing the minimum landing size would result in a significant boost in egg production and would be relatively easy to enforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen could be barred from landing lobsters smaller than 90mm under Government proposals published yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}