IN response to the letters from John O’Donoghue TD and Aidan Barry, CEO, South Western Regional Fisheries Board (May 29), the following information might allow your readers to make an informed decision regarding the salmon fishery in Castlemaine harbour in Co Kerry.

AS a commercial salmon fisherman for the past 30 years, I believe I know what it was like for the native Indian population in America who were kicked off their land and put into reservations.

The Progressive Democrats are using the survival of the salmon industry as a political football, an Oireachtas Committee claimed today.

THE National Salmon Commission yesterday called for a census of the seal population and said a cull may be necessary.