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Strict Controls on Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing In Ireland See Many Rivers Closed

The Central Fisheries Board in Southern Ireland has introduced a tagging system and closed many Irish salmon rivers for reasons of conservation.

The inevitable knock effect of the demise of the drift nets in Ireland has seen the Central Fisheries Board take action to start the recovery of the once prolific Irish rod fishery devastated by high sea netting. In a move that ends the free for all capture of fish out with actual river catchments which threatened the entire future of salmon fishing in the Republic, South Wales, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Hampshire, CFB has introduced a series of measures that will control the number of fish killed each year by anglers. Many, once prolific and famous river systems, are closed to salmon angling while the authorities wait for the recovery to happen.

Stable doors and all that.

Sad situation for Ireland once known for it's quality salmon fishing.

I did have information relating to what fishing was available but was obliged to delete it by an angling advisor from the Inland Fisheries Ireland.

Hello,

Please remove the erroneous information on your website at the following address:

/ArtSirelRegs.html

The information is out of date and you are also using copyrighted images without permission.

I recon it would have been better for them to provide an up date on the information that was freely available on the internet at the time the article was posted last year rather than requesting that information extracted from their own public web site be deleted.

What is happening in Eire? Anyone out there willing to comment?

Contact me at huskie @ spinfish .co.uk (just close the built in gaps included to beat the spammers). I know that some rivers are doing well, the Blackwater is a good example, but what is happening elsewhere? Salmon fishing in Ireland is still a gem and I'd love to test it out first hand.

Tourism is the life blood of many rural communities and angling is one of the major attractions bringing multimillion pound (Euro) income in tough times in the UK and Eire.

Please let me know how your fishery is doing, we are here to praise angling not to preside over it's burial.