here is another one of those moaning posts just to cheer everybody up on a miserable sunday morning,went out to a mark last nite on the north coast where i have been picking up ray and turbs,every ray i have caught has been returned and all the small bots returned also,however last nite after a scrabble down the cliffs and tackling up four rods,turned around and looked out to sea and out to the right was an orange buoy followed by a black flag okay i thought a net ,have seen them there b4 so fair enough,but hang on a minute overlapping this was another orange buoy and flag then another and another and so on right the way across the bay as far as the eye could see,this was not just across the bay it actually boxed the whole area,this is an all clean ground mark,so it deffo aint pots,what is going on ?these nets were within 300 yards of the shore,i honestly cant understand it,after all we all know that 99 percent of fish we catch off the shore are immature,so why is it being hammered like this,i am starting to wonder why i bother to return any fish at all,i have freinds that like eating ray ,but i have never given them one,thats going to change,i hate killing ray huss eels etc ,but if i put them back there fate is sealed anyway,from what i can make out. totally gutting.the goverment ,tackle shops,bait collecters all make a huge amount of money from us anglers and yet when it comes to preserving a few fish ,ah well sorry but tough ,i looked out at those nets last nite and wondered how many of the fish i had returned were hanging,why ,why ,why,the more i think about it the madder i m getting,sea angling is a dying sport,i know that there needs to be commercial fishing but when are they going to act and create safety areas,nursery areas no take zones,how can people get away with boxing in whole areas,surely this must decimate fish stocks ,these sand banks are NUSERY AREAS please leave alone.i reckon i spend between £20 and £40 a week on fishing,is there any point after all we can all go and sit by the sea for free,anyway after a move total catch 6 dogs ,1 schoolie,oh and they want us to pay for a sea fishing licence ,well not a chance will i pay,no way ever,unless i see some serious changes,i would like to say i feel happier after this rant ,but i dont cause its still going on .