'Trawlers land fish in Cornwall too small to keep or sell legally before drive ...
Now the Spanish are taking our fish! Trawlers are landing fish in Cornwall that are too small to keep or sell legally before driving them back to Spain in lorries, locals say Local fishermen in Newlyn, Cornwall, have made the claims about the catches They say Spanish trawlers are taking the tiddlers back to Spain by lorry The alleged practice was captured on video and circulated online on Twitter
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Spanish trawlers have been accused of landing fish in Cornwall legally too small to keep or sell - then driving them back to Spain in lorries.
The fishing community of Newlyn is rife with rumours of foreign vessels catching hake - and smuggling them back to the continent.
They say Spanish ships are catching hake below minimum landing size - which legally they are not allowed to flog because it is not sustainable.
The law protects fish stocks and states any catches below the minimum landing size must be thrown back into the water.
Footage was circulated online which purported to show the procedure in action
