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Erstens bitte ich um Entschuldigung, dass dies nur in Engish. Uwe Vielleicht könnte die relevanten Stücke ins Deutsche zu übersetzen?

I wanted to bring to the forum's membership - a number of whom, I'm sure, holiday (and fish) in the Canaries with their families - an attempt, apparently promoted by commercial interests, to restrict the numbers of days within a week that locals and tourists can sport fish, either from boats or the shore. This, I understand, follows on from legislation that prevents sport fishing boats fishing 'too close' to commercial fisherman.

Any rate there is a thread - http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/sh…ad.php?t=219129 - on another forum I moderate with significantly more background information. It includes a link to a Spanish web site - http://www.marcanario.com/noticias/antep…restrictiva.php - that further explains the situation. As I suspect many of you do not speak Spanish fluently you may wish to use Google's free on line translation service - in English - http://translate.google.com/#es|en| - oder in deutscher Sprache - http://translate.google.com/#es|de|. Whilst, at times the translation may appear very stilted it does at least get over the substance of the argument.

It is obviously of real concern to local sportsfishermen and also everyone who relies on tourism in the islands.

Well, it looks like gratifying news. There has been so much adverse publicity surrounding the Canarian authorities attempts to implement this legislation that the proposal has now been dropped. But, as yet, we are still awaiting official confirmation.

Jason Pipe's latest post appears on this WSF forum thread.

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IT'S BEEN STOPPED !!!

This is unofficial but good enough for me as i know where it came from....

It will be announced soon though. They will be addressing some changes in the future and the most important thing is we have a representative at the table when they do. so nothing can happen behind our backs as the way has been in the past.

So sharpen your hooks and get out there !!!
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Jason Pipe.

WWW.TEAMBOCINEGRO.COM

Um ... interesting to see how politicians 'back down' when their attempts to enact legislation without the consent of the majority of their constituents are publicised.

Unrelated, but an ideal place to post this comment, Jason's father - a 50% shareholder in the Bocinegro charter business - intends to retire and sell his stake. (Bocinegro's a fully equipped 38' Bertram based in La Gomera.) Should you be interested there are further details and a contact e-mail on this thread - http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/sh…ad.php?t=220359.

Quoted from "milchner"

..... Do you know how Jason wants to sell his business?

Hi Uwe
Unfortunately I don't know.

Speculating he may - well one option - just want to share the skippering and (some) deckhand duties on a 50/50 basis with another individual. (That would allow the individual, and Jason, to have some time off during the season.) On the other hand, and I'm aware of this arrangement with another boat, an individual could buy a 50% share in exchange for say several weeks fishing a year (at an agreed price) and a share in the profits of the business. That's something referred to as a 'sleeping partner'. For it to work of course the individual and Jason would have to agree on a level for Jason's salary. But there may well be other options that they could discuss.

Any rate the best approach for anyone interested would be to firstly have a look at his web site - http://www.teambocinegro.com/ to understand the fishing potential of La Gomera and then contact him by e-mail - bocinegro@hotmail.com