Fish merchant Robin Turner gives his thoughts on EU discards news.

North Devon's Journal newspaper ran a story on the news that the Brussels is looking to end the practice of discards at sea by 2012. Local fish merchant Robin Turner is quoted saying,

"This is not a silver bullet," said Mr Turner. "It's easy to ban something but discards came about because of quotas – which came about because of paperwork that has no bearing on what goes on in the ocean - Every small sea area is different from the one next door – you can't generalise from one area to another – fishing is very complex."

The full story including additional comments from North Devon Fishermen's Association John Butterwworth.