THE DPP has decided not to bring charges in a case arising from one of the biggest seizures of untagged salmon, it was confirmed yesterday.

THE basking shark found on a beach near Castlegregory, Co Kerry, earlier this week, above, died in a fixed net, the SWRFB said yesterday.

THE discovery of a dead basking shark, suffocated in a monofilament net, on a beach in south Kerry led to claims yesterday that such nets are still being used for salmon fishing.

Finding the dead 15-foot basking shark washed up in a monofilament drift net on Fermoyle beach, near Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, on Sunday, is disturbing because it gives rise to suspicion that some fishermen may still be drift-netting for salmon, even though the practice was outlawed in November 2006.

ON RTÉ’s Prime Time programme of Tuesday, February 8, which dealt with our dangerously low wild salmon stocks, South Western Regional Fisheries Board CEO Aidan Barry told the nation that the salmon policing system in his area had been transformed.