The ending of drift netting, Prof Wilkins suggests, will grant "the sole right of catching salmon to the rod anglers" and result in "an important national resource ...

Finding the dead 15-foot basking shark washed up in a monofilament drift net on Fermoyle beach, near Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, on Sunday, is disturbing because it gives rise to suspicion that some ...

Angling tourism is in crisis and Fianna Fáil must act now tosave it, writes Niall Greene. Anglers are not the most demonstrative bunch. Part of our passion for the sport lies in whiling away some ...

“They’re wound up tight in this net and it's strangling them,” said one man who spent nearly 30 days at sea on three different drift gillnet fishing trips in December 2016, September 2017 ...

THE conclusions of the independent salmon group on drift nets are welcome (Irish Examiner, October 25). The Government’s response will reveal much about the relationship between scientific ...

A report by the Central Fisheries Board, the State body responsible for inland and estuary fishing, has said that drift-netting for salmon should be allowed to continue. However, the board said ...

The Irish Fisherman's Organisation has slammed proposals for a ban on salmon drift-netting in an effort to reverse declining stocks in Irish rivers. Monday, 21 April 2025 Newsletters ...

Drift nets are a "wall of death" for salmon trying to ascend rivers to spawn. Sir - The curtain has finally fallen on the worst salmon angling season in the history of the state with the ...

BRITAIN has been accused of no longer being ''a nation fit to manage her own salmon stocks''. The dispute centres on the practice of drift-netting off the North-east coast of England. The attack ...