Sea Fishing Licences

[tjnorton]

Originally Posted by Greenheart

Just hope these Sea fishing Bailiffs can swim......

lol many ideas go through your head

tj

[monkey nuts]

Originally Posted by Greenheart

Just hope these Sea fishing Bailiffs can swim......

thay might need gills when you got your foot on there head

[meolsman]

They squirm enough, I just may use them as bait then again would only catch conger,pretty good eating though,the conger.

[meolsman]

Hey greenheart you have that album ummi--gummi nix on the spelling.

[samcox]

(Don’t let them charge us for the commercial fishermen’s sloppy seconds)
I will keep this short and sweet to avoid boring you.
Why should sea anglers have to pay a license or have a strategy (that could find them bound up in restrictions) forced on them? The commercial fleet have been so badly managed over the past 35 years and stocks of a lot of species have declined so much that most sea anglers don’t get to see a good days fishing. Issues such as bag limits, no take zones and dictating of the methods chosen by anglers could be imposed on them once a strategy is in place. These would not be accepted by sea anglers as it was the commercial fleet that have ruined our sport.Course anglers happily pay a licence fee and I understand why, the rivers are well kept and regually stocked.We feel that without more and bigger fish it would be grossly unfair to impose a strategy or make sea anglers pay a license without first producing more and bigger fish.Please take a few minutes to read my e- petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website. The link is below.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/seaanglerlisence/
If you agree then please sign.
Thank you for taking the time to read my petition.
Regards...Sam Cox

[Barrie C]

I agree with your sentiments on Sea fish stock control........

But I cannot agree with the rivers being well kept and as regards stocking, the only stocking taking place is in Commercial fisheries, not by the EA. They will re-stock after pollution spills though.

But the last time they stocked one of my local Fen drains........................ (which counts as a river as I cant fish till June 16th)
Was in 1963 when they put a few Zander in the Relief channel -

Barrie

[dobbin]

Top and bottom of it is that I wont pay, What with conwy council charging £90 for a launching permit, plus £25 to register and £17 each time you launch and then the governing bodies want to charge for rod licences, NO WAY! And Ill tell you now other councils are concidering doing the same thing all around our coast so watch out all you boat anglers, soon it wont be worthwile owning a boat.

[samcox]

These are tough times for sea anglers, govenment both at Westminster and it seems now at a local level have woken up to how much money they can sqeez out of us?

Give us decent inshore fish manament, place no restrictions on us and basically leave us alone. Then I might concider a licence fee fair! At prent all we would get is the commercial fisherment taking our sport away!

[Barrie C]

I'm on the fence on this one,....a lot of the arguements against are related to depreciation of fish stocks by commercial fishing, I agree that that is a big problem for Sea Anglers......but

When it comes to sea fishing, I'm in favour of catch and release - where appropriate - such as if i'm not re-using for bait etc

I hate seeing photographs in the Sea angling press of people with fish (not even taken for the table) needlessly killed and photographed in a back garden!

This may only be a small minority, but there seem to be a lot of photos of fish like this published all the time - so maybe not!

If the Sea Anglers themselves (or the Sea Angling press maybe) are not setting a good example of sea fish preservation - why should anyone else listen?

Like to hear feedback on catch and release

Barrie

[..::Pike Pirate::..]

i mainly catch and release. if i need a piccy i get a quick one then put the fishies straight back, although if i get a sizeable fish that i like the taste of i might take one or two to eat, and i think thats alright, as what was going on for ages before overfishing reared its ugly head.