"We have heard time and time again that there simply isn't enough fish to catch."Local boats find there is nothing left. They cannot compete with these kinds of vessels."There are around 75 boats licensed to use the method in the area. Most are Dutch or French, but some are UK-flagged.Greenpeace and the coastal fishing representatives are calling for fly-shooting to be banned from the Channel and southern North Sea.
Graham Doswell, a third-generation fisherman from Eastbourne, said:"I've been fishing on the Sussex coast all of my working life and it's been really good."I think unless something really, really drastic is done I think it's going to be difficult for everybody to carry on making a living." "If you are a small scale boat fishing out of a small harbour you are hoping to go out every month and spread your catches over the year, whereas these boats come in and remove their entire catch for the year possible in the space of a month and that leaves a hole in the number of fish for the small boats."
That's the French