I am advised that whitebait is normally sold by weight, and that it is the most convenient way for people to buy it.
Certainly a great quantity of the general market in whitebait is sold by weight.
Moreover, our attention has been drawn to the fact that whitebait is coming to be retailed pre-packed in lightweight wrappers.
The deletion of paragraph 3 would mean that whitebait fisheries would be completely forbidden.
A further example: we believe that, given the importance of the whitebait sector, that species can be put on sale on condition that it is caught with statutory gear.
If we do not amend this particular paragraph, it will mean that whitebait is also excluded from the requirements in regard to retail sale which apply to most other fish.
Other commercially important species are bream, reeves shad, eel, cat fish, rainbow trout, salmon, whitebait, mullet, mandarin fish, perch, sturgeon, murrel and pangolin.
Pike perch, bream, whitebait, tench, whitefish are widespread.
