Jersey Sea Fishing Licence

[Socksy Squirrel]

I do not know what this licence is going to entail.

However I would like to see something on the table that is beneficial to sea angling before the licence goes ahead.

At the moment the freshwater anglers pay a licence, in return they get stocking in the case of the trout anglers and exclusive access in the case of the coarse anglers.

Are we going to be left paying say £20 per annum with no benefits at all apart from maybe a few quid given to Jersey Tourism to subsidise the Jersey Open Festival.

[Socksy Squirrel]

Hi there,

 

I thought I would pull this back to the top as the meeting is tomorrow.

See you there

[Leon Roskilly]

It's on the BBC

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/je...sey/4510549.stm

 

Tight Lines - leon

[big_cod]

Just another tax dont be fooled.

[Socksy Squirrel]

Take a look at this,

 

States make £19m loss in 2004

http://www.thisisjersey.co.uk/news/news7.html

 

It smells like another tax and we are not going to get anything for it :mad:

[Chippy]

Socksy Squirrel:

It smells like another tax and we are not going to get anything for it :mad:

Of course we will, we'll get a stupid bit of paper that says we can fish in the same sea that others are free to rape and pillage!!

[Toerag]

Chippy:

Of course we will, we'll get a stupid bit of paper that says we can fish in the same sea that others are free to rape and pillage!!

Don't forget that you have a pretty good hold of your 12 mile limit. It really does look like another attempt to fill the tax black hole though.

[Grant]

So how did the meeting go? Got pulled over to London so couldnt attend.

 

Was there any good news?

[Steve Walker]

Socksy Squirrel:

At the moment the freshwater anglers pay a licence, in return they get stocking in the case of the trout anglers and exclusive access in the case of the coarse anglers.

I'm not sure they even get that. Most stocked fisheries are stocked by the owners, not by the Environment Agency, and the money coarse anglers pay to get exclusive access is to the club or owner, not the EA.

 

It's hard enough to make a case for the trout/coarse licence, really; I think it's a fair point that cleaner rivers are something everyone wants, not just anglers, and that lots of other activities benefit from facilities funded from general taxation. You don't get football licences, rambling licences or birdwatching licences, so why should there be fishing licences?

 

I also wonder how much of the licence fee is spent on administration and enforcement.

 

It's just a tax, and sea anglers should fight it tooth and nail.

[Chippy]

The whole licensing scheme / bag limits is a total non-starter. After all they can't police the current regulations properly at the moment!!

 

I think the that the no take zones are highly likely to happen at some stage and in some form.

 

The crux of the matter is the Sea Anglers aren't currently represented on the Sea Fisheries Advisory Panel, hence the meeting above was called to try and establish whether sea anglers in the island are willing to support the idea of a a representative being made.

 

The general concensus (sp?) was that minimum sizes need to be increased and a further meeting will be taking place in due course to try and thrash out some of the issues and to try and establish a way forward.