Sea Fishing Licences

[John Marshall]

As for the licence I hope it's used to improve access to marks for the disabled, used to enforce no fishing areas around the coast to promote nursery areas, or used to prevent a lot of seasonal tinsle chuckers from ruining marks such as Chesil and the Piers in Dover, if I get two of those delivered for the price of £25.00 a year I think it'll be a good start.

Hope your wishes come true Tony, but as a boat angler I can't see any benefit
in it, so I'm with Gully.

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

i can see this might be one of the most popular topics ive posted!

so far im still quite agnostic about the whole thing...im not sure if the money that would be put into it would come out at the other end

after all...not me personally yet...but what do we pay taxes for?

im sure someone else has already said that

[philipn]

ive a nice speck in liverpool docks NOTE not the freeport and have fished there for as long as i remember some good cod there at times and can use a 4oz wieght without grippers yep on the mersey my beef is can the port police arrest me as ive been moved on a few times in recent weeks after years of fishing last week some bobby said "if i see you fishing here again he will arrest me" maybe steve can advise me

[meolsman]

There was an article in the papers about this,it is apparently under review,they are not sure if going to open up the previous areas,or
you have to be a member of a club maybe someone else knows more,they did stop anyone fishing because of security worries???

[Portland Pirate]

Lets be honest it is just another stealth tax.
If it is not then why are fishermen being discriminated against? Why not licence, canoeist's, wind surfers, boat users, in fact why stop there? Why not tax all the sunbathers on the beach in the summer?

Scotland has the right idea. No Licence! Are the rivers in Scotland in a worse state than those in England or Wales? I don't think so.

We have to say no!

[meolsman]

Its a funny gov,they have just put up the mersey-tunnel fees,abolished them in scotland and the toll fees,I will not pay to fish the seas.By the way I did not mean that to rhyme.

[tonybolton]

Originally Posted by meolsman

Its a funny gov,they have just put up the mersey-tunnel fees,abolished them in scotland and the toll fees,I will not pay to fish the seas.By the way I did not mean that to rhyme.

Two separate parliaments and i'd rather have the standard of living in England than in Scotland thanks.

[Bigbenny]

Thought this was an interesting view...

www.allaboutangling.co.uk

[Portland Pirate]

Originally Posted by tonybolton

Two separate parliaments and i'd rather have the standard of living in England than in Scotland thanks.

What's that then Tony? Sub standard education and health system. Higher crime figures and the highest immigration rate in Europe. Your welcome to your standard of living.

[tonybolton]

Originally Posted by Portland Pirate

What's that then Tony? Sub standard education and health system. Higher crime figures and the highest immigration rate in Europe. Your welcome to your standard of living.

Indeed I have to pinch myself every day to check i'm not dreaming. Superb economic growth, high levels of disposable income, plenty of work, free health care for all etc etc etc.