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Post by gavan on Feb 20, 2006 19:04:42 GMT
i don't think i have seen this mentioned on the forum.
two anglers, fishing the wye, fined, £1000 each,plus
£750 costs.
for failing, to return, a dead salmon to the river....
they didn't try to hide their actions,reported them,
in the book, at the lodge..
surely, only one of them caught the fish....
i know it's difficult, but, surely,this, is a bit over the top.
what do other members think......
.........gavan.......
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Post by wilbert on Feb 20, 2006 20:05:30 GMT
Has this happened again or is it a report from last season ??
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Post by Bogyoch on Feb 20, 2006 20:05:46 GMT
I guess rules are rules. Whether we feel that they are right or not, we do need to adhere to them. It is odd that both were fined, but one was party to the crime as well. I recall their main excuse for not returning the fish, was that they thought a rotting carcass would be damaging to the local environment. However, I have been told that dead salmon close to their spawning grounds actually help the fry in their early stages of life as there's food to hand.
I suppose they both thought that not returning the dead salmon was the sensible thing to do, but yes, they did break the rules, and hence the (harsh) fines.
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Post by ar on Feb 20, 2006 21:11:18 GMT
It's old news. The conviction was last year and related, I think, to events of the preceding season. One convicted was the owner of the Bigsweir beat, Charles Hopkinson, and the other a fisherman on his beat. As I understand it attempts were made to return the fish to the water but it died. Rather than chucking back a dead fish (which is what the law requires) they took it, entered it in the record book and then gave it away to a local home for the elderly/infirm. No secret was made of what had happened but the EA prosecuted all the same.
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