Minister should rethink curb on anglers

HAVING read about the latest directive from the Minister for the Marine (Irish Examiner, August 3) I feel compelled to put my views in writing.

It is amazing that a short time after the closure of the salmon netting season, in which the nets took up to half a million (yes, 500,000) salmon out of the system, the minister puts a stop to the rod anglers killing a fish for the table.

We are getting used to strange directives but this one from the coalition for stupidity must surely take the biscuit.