Plymouth MP Luke Pollard asked Camborne and Redruth MP, George Eustace in a written question how much the Under10m catch reporting app had cost the Department.
He replied that £1.8 million was the eye-watering amount!
Just up the road in St Austell and Newquay and the next constituency to George Eustace, Graham Murt brother of a Newquay fisherman developed a very similar app so that fishermen could report their shellfish catches to the MMO. There's a fair chance that neither the fishermen nor his brother had anything like £1.8 million to spend on developing their app - more like £80!
Information about the new million pound-plus app from the MMO is here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/record-your-catch
Alternatively, you can investigate this free catch recording app from Newquay here:
https://icatchsite.wordpress.com/
We live in a strange world at times.
