Possible ban on ( Industrial) Sandeel fishing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/uk-may-ban-sandeel-fishing-in-move-to-save-threatened-seabirds?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

I couldn't agree with it more.Our seas are being raped by foreign boats,and the end catch is primarily used for fertiliser.Even if the shareholders are British,they are still profiting by selling overseas.
I can remember in the 60's, the sea was at times a mass of silver with sandeels.

More sandeel should mean more predators which would be a good thing.

Would we still be able to buy sandeel for bait though?

This can only be a good thing but we can’t have it all ways Musslelman, if we can’t get them I’m sure someone will come up with a good artificial one.

As ever,there will only be a black or white decision.The powers that be never seem to consider there being a grey area.
The stocks are being depleted by over fishing by foreign commercial boats.
Local boats in the UK ie bait catching boats are not the cause.
The stocks replenished naturally years ago with no problems.
As ever,greed is killing the pig.
I read an article a few years back about the cockle fishing around Greenfield and the Dee estuary,commercials were coming from all over the British isles,and depleting the stocks.
Luckily,huge restrictions were brought in to restrict the amounts.
Local cockle fishermen got licences,and the stocks started to replenish.
Over fishing by commercials ruins the Eco system.Dependant species start to feel the effects and die off.

I think this happens all over the world, and mostly it is overfishing by the commercial sector, our NZ Ministery of Fisheries, which is tasked with regulating fish populations is often called Ministry of commercial fisheries.
The first casualty of commercialism here were rock oysters exported to Australia in the late 1800s, followed by black foot paua (abalone) and crayfish. Not so many years ago we had huge schools of Kahawai covering acres chasing baitfish on the surface, so they brought in seine fishing boats and using spotter planes managed to decimate the schools, exporting it to Australia for cray bait, pet food and fertilizer. There has been a very slow recovery.
Because we have only had commercial fishing for about 100 years, there is evidence of the virgin fish stocks, which are supposed to be kept at Maximum Sustainable yield, at 60% of the original. The commercial sector cannot reduce fishing pressure unless directed to by the ministry as they have to keep boats working and shareholders happy
Many stocks here hover between 25 to 30% and when cuts are imposed, the recreational sector comes off worst despite the value of a recreational caught fish being 10 times the value of a commercial one to the country.
New Zealand's recreational fishing sector is worth $946 million a year and supports 8100 jobs, new research shows. A report commissioned by the New Zealand Marine Research Foundation shows that more than 600,000 residents and 100,000 tourists fish in New Zealand waters each year. Apart from trout fishing, most activity is marine fishing. over 50% of NZ ers either own or had use of a recreational boat in the last few years.  
Certainly around the top half of the North Islands East coast, it is estimated 3050,000 KG of snapper is caught by recreational annually, and 4050,000 kg for commercial

Nz fish exports are worth 1.5 billion $nz (750 million pounds sterling) though much of this is of deep water fish not recreationally targeted.