We will do all we can to continue fishing tradition

I WOULD like to clarify the position In reference to your article titled “Salmon fishing ban protesters to contest court charges” (January 14).

Firstly, those mentioned and I are all licence holders who did not accept the salmon licence buyout, opting instead to retain what is a large and valuable aspect of our heritage and culture and we are opposing the unjust actions of a government which armed with complicated mathematical formulae, blind bureaucracy and under the guise of conservation, has ignored logic and commonsense and proceeded to destroy a tradition which has been in existence in our area for the last thousand years.

Secondly, we realise that we as ordinary people have little chance of prevailing in a legal battle against this government, inept and incompetent as it is, and which with unbridled enthusiasm enforces ill-conceived laws and regulations on its ordinary citizens, while those who have crippled our nation they shield and hold close to their bosom.