Salmon conservation on a strange course

DONAL HICKEY wrote about the calls to the EU by Welsh and English anglers to have drift-netting of salmon banned (Irish Examiner, January 9).

I smiled when I read it and would like to reassure those concerned anglers that the Irish authorities are actually not totally passive and disinterested in the ongoing fall of salmon stocks in our seas and rivers.

Many people are aware of my efforts to lay out a golf course on the sand spit at Inch, Aunascaul, Co Kerry.