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.

Minister should rethink curb on anglers
Fri, 06 Aug, 2004 - 01:00

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.

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