A report on our coastal environment that says large fishing vessels are desecrating our coastal seabeds and that fish from Scandinavia is now having to be imported to sell in the south-west:
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East Devon Watch 
By coincidence as a birthday present I went on a line-fishing trip yesterday, and the skipper of the boat was saying how much more difficult it has been to catch fish on such trips over the past few years.
If we want fishing stocks to recover (rather than become extinct!!), we need to establish these zones quickly – though if it makes sense they could potentially be established on a temporary basis, until stocks have recovered and they are no longer needed. The sooner that these zones are established, the sooner that stocks will recover and the sooner that fishermen can again successfully earn a living.
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What is unacceptable is that elected and statutory bodies (deliberately?) allow themselves to be confused by whom they serve. Elected bodies are there to serve the whole electorate, no matter who voted for them. Numerically developers are irrelevant, especially when they are not even constituents.
If a District Council has any customers, they are overwhelmingly the Council Tax payers who fund (ignoring the vagaries of the government central grant) the overwhelming amount of Council activities. To even suggest that developers are customers that have to be serviced ahead of the true funders of activity – Council tax payers and taxpayers, is an insult to democracy and the true customers of the Council.
EDDC appear to have failed to understand that they are public servants – they are there to serve the public, not to harass them or to ignore them in favour of marginal contributors. Maybe there is a case for training of the officers of councils since they seem to rather readily forget who they are there to serve?
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