Licence

[Happy]

First posting, Fishing for forty years mainly course but more and more sea. Pondered why a licence and why now?
Fewer and fewer young lads and lasses are taking up course/sea fishing and feel that the administration cost for baliffs and licence may well be falling short, so what better way of topping up the coffers at the old environment agency by fetching the sea anglers into the equation. Would it be a good thing? Ask any salmon angler in england, their's more salmon in scotland and you don't need a licence? Look at the state of some carps lips? what have they done about that? How about overstocking waters, so that the fish have no option but to feed? What about close seasons another area that should be addressed. No I'm afraid the licence is a scam and won't stop or improve any aspects of sea fishing, history proves it. Now you know why they call me Happy.

[The Great Wallsendo]

Some good points...welcome to NESA

[davem2005]

HI Happy,

Welcome to Nesa.

The subjects been discussed long and hard but by no means to a conclusion.

Take a look at Licenses

Its time it came back up as there is some good stuff there.

It has nothing to do with the EA...they are the freshwater and salmon folks although there is an overlap in some circumstances ie anglers fishng rivers for cod could also be after salmon...

Inshore fisheries are run by the sea fisheries committee's, but a license would be still open to debate as to who would sell it and enforce it...

The debate goes on

Cheers
Dave