Big Cod - DEFRA are after you and your skipper friends.

[wurzel]

Perhaps, if it could be shown that shore angling is not a problem(it's allowed in Bass nurseries, after all) the rod license might only apply to boat anglers.

 

If it is applied to shore anglers, how many rods will it cover?

 

I've got my hard hat on!

 

Hello Jim

 

I reality all angling is not a problem, the same applies to most commercial fishing, that has nothing what so ever to do with implementing a licence.

[Leon Roskilly]

(Norm B @ Nov 10 2006, 08:39 PM) Under Magna Carta fishing from the shore is free, will they attempt to change the law under Magna Carta, it's got Royal approval after all.

 

 

er, Sorry Norm it's a myth.

 

Fishing hardly gets a mention in the Magna Carta, just a brief reference to removing the fish traps from the Thames & Medway rivers.

 

See translation at: http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/magna.html

 

 

The Public 'Right to Fish (one of just three actual 'rights', including the right to drive!), actually pre-dates Magna Carta and goes back to Roman times.

 

See: http://www.sacn.org.uk/Articles/The_Public...ht_to_Fish.html

 

 

 

With regard to the right to fish being free, well that's why there is a 'rod licence' and not a 'fishing licence' ie it's not fishing that is being restricted in any way by a licence, it's the use of a fishing rod that is licensed (in freshwater, all other unlicensed methods are banned, but you can still freely fish on public waters - providing you haqve a licence to use a fishing rod!)

 

 

The same on the sea.

 

We can all put to sea and fish, but if we want to sell the catch then the vessel has to be licensed, so again the right to fish is unrestricted, it is the use of a vessel that has to be licenensed (but only if the fishg are to be sold).

Edited November 11, 2006 by Leon Roskilly