For Budgie

[Vagabond]

Budgie - I have responded to your request, but would like to run this thought by you

 

If you want licences checked more often, it would need more EA staff (or else existing staff would have to cease what else they do in order to carry out more checks)

 

Extra staff would mean increased licence fees

 

I would not relish paying a large licence fee, only to find it was being largely spent on checking licences. I want my licence fee spent on enhancing our waters - not paying jobsworths to check licences.

 

The present strategy, of rare checks, but hefty fines for those caught, is to my mind about right. Make the fines bigger by all means.

Edited September 8, 2006 by Vagabond

[badexcuseforanangler]

I'd like to see more checks but without more staff its not going to happen. I think there should be on the spot fines to stop all the time taken up taking people to court

[poledark]

Bad excuse, can you imagine trying to get money from a licence dodger in some remote fishing spot ?

 

Anyway, what is the problem with the present setup? So a few fish without a license, does this really affect the rest of us?

 

Sorry Budgie, I am messing up your topic,

Den

[Dick Dastardly]

Vagabond and Den,I understand entirely what you are getting at! I should imagine that the extra cost of "effective policing" would far out way the extra income from any extra licences brought or even fines (certainly at the existing levels) raised.Not that I would wish to see the fines raised even further.I strikes me as wrong that an angler without a licence or indeed breaking a fishing bye law (such as number of rods etc) can recieve a higher fine than a drunk driver, commiter aof ABH/GBH etc! I wont deviate from the angling side of this other than to say the real answer would be to raise all fines both angling and not but just to keep them in perspective!

 

I dont have an answer (er yet any way) to the problem but first Im just hoping to establish that there is a problem and to hopefully spur others (far cleverer than me) into looking for answers when they see the extent of it!

[Guest tigger]

There are several things I dont like about the current rod license, the fact that it runs from a fixed month to calender month irrespective of the purchase date, On top of that you either pay each time you visit a water or have a yearly membership fee and if you fish for sea trout or Salmon you pay more for your rod license(a fish is a fish and I reckon most people even in the game fish scene practise catch and release).

 

Maybe it would be better to scrap the current rod license and license the fisheries instead?

Also a small ammount of the price to fish the waters could go to the EA?

Just a thought as fisheries are charging such high prices these days for a days fishing.

[dogstick]

Scrap the license,sack the ballifs and use the money saved on wages to further our pleasure

 

[les middy]

Scrap the license,sack the ballifs and use the money saved on wages to further our pleasure

 

 

 

pray tell what money