Irish Government bans drift net fishing!

In by email:

Drift Net Ban
November 1, 2006 @ 13.00
Today is a momentous day for Irish Salmon Angling.

A meeting of the Cabinet of the Irish Government today accepted the report of the Independant Salmon Group established to examine the Implications of Alignment with the Scientific Advice for the Commercial Salmon Fishing Sectorin 2007 and Beyond.

This means a complete cessation of drift net fishing
or any other form of harvesting outside rivers and estuaries.
Further details will be posted on the News Page
of our website as they become available.

Best Regards & Even More Tight Lines for 2007
from an ecstatic
Ian Powell
(Proprietor)
Blackwater Lodge Hotel & Salmon Fishery
(Voted Best Fishing Hotel 2005 by the readers of the UK magazine Today's Flyfisher!)
Upper Ballyduff
Co. Waterford
Ireland
Email: info@ireland-salmon-fishing.net
Web: http://www.ireland-salmon-fishing.net
Tel: 00 353 58 60235 From UK: 0871 474 0135 (10p/min any time!)
Fax: 00 353 58 60162 From UK: 0871 474 0136 (10p/min any time!)
Mobile: 00 353 87 235 21 20

This is good news. Thanks for the update.
jed