SHRFB Coarse Angling Permit

Written answers in Dáil Éireann 26th February 2003
(The following is an extract taken from the Debates of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 26/2/03. To view, goto www.irlgov.ie)

184. Mr. P. McGrath

asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the proposals to introduce a rod licence of €30 on waterways under the control of the Central Regional Fisheries Board; if he has approved this proposal; if such a charge will also be applicable to young anglers; the lakes and rivers where this charge will apply; and the date from which this charge is applicable.


Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (Mr. D. Ahern):

I presume that the Deputy is referring to the decision by the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board to extend the permit charges to cover coarse angling on fisheries that it controls and manages on behalf of the central fisheries boards in the region.
As I informed the House on 5 February 2003, I am advised by the fisheries board that it has had a permit charge for trout angling for many years on the board-controlled fisheries and that the permit income is reinvested in the conservation and day-to-day management of these fisheries. I understand that the fisheries board, in reviewing its management and the fees charged for its fisheries in 2002, decided to extend the permit charges to cover coarse angling on the board-controlled fisheries, on the basis that it was unfair to charge one angler to fish for one species while another angler fishing for a different species, on the same water, was not charged. As this is an operational matter, I have asked the chief executive officer of the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board to address the particular queries raised by the Deputy and to reply directly to him in the matter.

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