I dont care how Big they are!! they are too Bl@@dy small!! And take it from me this club is fully entitled to judge others by our standards, The amount of fish returned by its members in the name of conservation is outstanding. Derek. 
PS, You wouldn,t keep them on ''ELLEN''
Agreed Derek .... they would not have been kept on Little Sal either (even if they were all that was caught).
I put a 12lb cod back last year.
When I look on my IPod the image is scrunched up so they appear a lot fatter and what I was taking as one fish (had the brightness turned right down as well to conserve battery -I am not going blind honestly!) is two or three smaller ones.
I wonder if they used larger baits or live baits whether they would have days like us,sometimes not a fish other days one or two of a better size?
I did send in a piccy of my cod but didn't see it in that paper
Nige
having fished that area and also a regular angler in the bristol channel i would say that none of those fish are undersize. that is around the average size of the cod run most years, 2-3lb fish. some years the average is higher some lower. they don't get that many large cod and even fishing whole squid baits or small live whiting you can still catch plenty of codling.
when on our boat we tend to put most back and take a few that are gut hooked and bleeding.
it would be nice if all the cod caught were 6lb plus but thats not how it is unfortunately.
i do aggree though that the minimum landing size is to small and should be bigger so that all fish have reproduced at least once before being taken.
It is a hard one as the area we fish in still gives us a good chance of catching decent fish.
Our whiting are as big as those codling and we only take a few of what we catch.
However that was not the case where I grew up in Weston Super Mare, but even back then [OK way back then LOL] we would not have retained all of those.
If all boats from that area are retaining hauls of small fish like that they can hardly moan that their sport is so poor.
I am sure that if we all killed everything that we landed, ours would be too.
It is not all down to rules and minimum fish sizes, it is down to personal choice and being willing to practice what you preach.
We eat fish but still practice catch and release for a huge proportion of our catch.
I would rather see pictures of single big fish than one like that any day.
Charlie
is not the point more about publishing the pictures as no law was broken the fish are the norm in that area etc but to use that sort of picture to promote angling trips is somewhat counter productive , round here the fisheries officer would count the fish multiply it by the number of anglers and then multiply by days at sea to work out the rsa catch of cod so pictures with several anglers holding multiple fish in each hand are unhelpful
Brings back memories from years ago, fishing in the Thames Estuary on my next door neighbours boat. That is the sort of size of all the codling that we used to catch ( and it was like catching mackeral then ... ).
during the war !!!!
Yes, Falklands one.
This is going to be contentious!
There is a scientific body of thought that it is the mature fish that shoud be returned and the small fry kept for the pot!
The taking of a few tiddlers is more than offset by the Millions of millions of eggs released by a 20lb cod.
The DNA is also "improved" by the "survival of the fittest" scenario.
However, the problem as always, is how to police it.
This is going to be contentious!
There is a scientific body of thought that it is the mature fish that shoud be returned and the small fry kept for the pot!
The taking of a few tiddlers is more than offset by the Millions of millions of eggs released by a 20lb cod.
The DNA is also "improved" by the "survival of the fittest" scenario.
However, the problem as always, is how to police it.
Don't Eat Meeeeeee 
Jim 
This is going to be contentious!
There is a scientific body of thought that it is the mature fish that shoud be returned and the small fry kept for the pot!
The taking of a few tiddlers is more than offset by the Millions of millions of eggs released by a 20lb cod.
The DNA is also "improved" by the "survival of the fittest" scenario.
However, the problem as always, is how to police it.
Same with the Bass MLS ... but realistically I think that there should ..
.... be a MIN and a MAX size for Bass ( we need the smaller fish growing on to become 10 lb plus)
....moderation exercised in the retention of any multiple catches
Problem, as with all these ideas, is policing / enforcing the rules ...
Thankfully our Club seems to self police .... wish the rest of the fishing world was the same
Just my opinion ....
Dave
This is going to be contentious!
There is a scientific body of thought that it is the mature fish that shoud be returned and the small fry kept for the pot!
The taking of a few tiddlers is more than offset by the Millions of millions of eggs released by a 20lb cod.
The DNA is also "improved" by the "survival of the fittest" scenario.
However, the problem as always, is how to police it.
I am sure that works if managed! But this isn't managed, if there was an upper size limit then im sure it would be great!
....BUT..........it is the 'middle' sized fish that are the 'fittest' fish, in reproductive terms. !!