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Inland Fisheries Ireland undertaking review of Bass, Pike and Trout 
policies
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has today (08.04.16) confirmed that it is in the process of reviewing the national policies for the management of bass, pike and trout. The policies were launched by IFI in August 2014 and have a three year review cycle.
IFI has commenced the process of examining all relevant and appropriate data to inform the review of these policies. This process was initiated in January 2016 and includes the examination of:
- The current stock management programme, including resource usage, fish transfer and health and safety;
- Marketing and socio-economic information to include actual and potential economic value;
- Scientific information to provide advice and to consider the scientific merits of the processes being currently undertaken.
An important element of each review will be a public consultation process which will be announced later in 2016. The consultations will ensure that anglers and other stakeholders have sufficient time to consider the existing policies and make submissions that will inform their review.
Dr Ciaran Byrne, CEO, Inland Fisheries Ireland, said: “The public consultation element of the reviews presents an excellent opportunity for the 273,600 strong community of Irish anglers to engage with IFI and will ensure that the decision-making process becomes better informed, more rigorous and more accountable. IFI is committed to on-going engagement with anglers and other stakeholders through public meetings, the National Inland Fisheries Forum, public consultations and our complaints, comments and compliment procedures.”
During an anglers’ demonstration at IFI headquarters in Citywest on 24th March 2016, IFI received a petition signed by over 22,000 people from around the world, including a total of 1,032 Irish signatures. A group of approximately 80 anglers protested against the implementation of the current Pike Policy, agreed with the Irish Federation of Pike Angling Clubs and the National Association of Recreational Anglers in 2014.
Commenting on this, Dr Ciaran Byrne added: “While the petition represents a small proportion of Irish anglers, IFI recognises the unified views of those who signed it and we have made contact with the protest organisers with a view to engaging with this diverse group of anglers. IFI appreciates that public policy-making can be enhanced through the active involvement and contribution of all stakeholders with an interest in particular policy developments.
“In recent weeks, many of the protesters have made their views known to IFI through our comments and complaints channels but IFI wishes to assure all anglers that they will have the opportunity to make a representation in the public consultation process on the Pike, Trout and Bass Policy reviews later this year. Furthermore, IFI is running a number of surveys in conjunction with the ESRI to ensure that we capture the views of our domestic anglers as comprehensively as possible.”
ENDS
Further Information:
Suzanne Campion
Head of Business Development
Inland Fisheries Ireland
Anglesea Street,
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Tel: 052 6180055 Fax: 052 6123971
Email: suzanne.campion@fisheriesireland.ie Website: www.fisheriesireland.ie
Note for Editors:
Inland Fisheries Ireland is a statutory body operating under the aegis of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and was established under the Fisheries Act on 1st July 2010. Its principal function is the protection and conservation of the inland fisheries resource. IFI promotes, supports, facilitates and advises the Minister on the conservation, protection, management, development and improvement of inland fisheries, including sea angling, and develops and advises the Minister on policy and national strategies relating to inland fisheries and sea angling.
To her left, the sea spilled across the small slipway. There was a heart-stopping crack of thunder from the waves. A fall of rain blew in. She felt light-headed and afraid. She stepped into a hollow on the down-wind side of the rocks where the last of the flowering sea-thrift grew in small pink clumps. The weight of the low cliffs was over her head. The land was made of stone, and each stone was neatly packaged away on beds of slate. And on each slate a record of straight lines and broken lines was kept – of distances, of levels, of the sea and its booms, and gravel blown up.
Dermot Healy – A Goat’s Song
A little bit of fishing in your day
FREE WORKSHOP – If you are already familiar with single handed saltwater fly fishing techniques, then you are also fully aware of the considerable challenge it presents. Single handed #8’s and sometimes #9’s used with the double haul is the game we play. It can be physically and mentally demanding. As saltwater fly fishers we already know it’s a low percentage return when it comes to actually catching fish, if conditions deteriorate and wind picks up then the odds truly stack up against us.
The use of double handed rods is still somewhat ‘new’ in the coastal environment, although guys in the USA are predictably ahead of the game. Recently I have spent time fishing with two double handers, these are 11’0” Beulah surf rods – the #5/6 which I am loading with my Rio Outbound #8 and #9 SH lines and the other is the #7/8 which I am loading with some 350 grain shooting heads and the OB #9’s SH. It’s great that the SH hand lines transfer to these rods so easily.
Moving to a DH rod in the salt is as much about the different technique and casting effeciency as anything and the sense of adapting and learning your new fishing and casting challenge is a major part of the enjoyment. There are some improvements in catching too particularly where current is involved. Fly-fishing is never the most efficient method of catching fish the DH rod in the salt presents us with a new method that can allow us to cast and fish easier and for longer when repeated casting is required.
If you would like to learn a little about these rods and the fishing with double handers through a FREE short introductory workshop, please don’t hesitate to contact me
Fly tying and fly fishing
Brian Healey and Jim Hendrick May 14th – a one day workshop here in Wexford. Learn to tie and fish crossover streamers for bass and seatrout on the coast. Limited to two people only.
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
Jim Harrison
I know it’s out of fashion
And a trifle uncool
But I can’t help it
I’m a romantic fool
It’s a habit of mine
To watch the sun go down
On Echo beach, I watch the sun go down
From nine till five I have to spend my time at work
My job is very boring, I’m an office clerk
The only thing that helps me pass the time away
Is knowing I’ll be back at Echo Beach some day
On a silent summer evening
The sky’s alive with light
Building in the distance
Surrealistic sight
On Echo Beach
Waves make the only sound
On Echo Beach
There’s not a soul around
From nine till five I have to spend my time at work
My job is very boring, I’m an office clerk
The only thing that helps me pass the time away
Is knowing I’ll be back at Echo Beach some day
Echo Beach
Far away in time
Echo Beach
Far away in time
Martha and the Muffins
THIRTYARDS 
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