I READ recently that 10,000 objections were lodged, including a comprehensive submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee of the Marine, by the Stop Salmon Drift Nets Now organisation.

THE commercial salmon fishing sector has failed to reach its quota since 2001. That year the quota stood at 237,099 and the netsmen returned a catch of 237,626. In 2002, it was set at 219,649 and the return was 208,982.