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JimC wrote:I suppose that I, like yourself, have been loosely monitoring the mullet population at various locations around the harbour during the year. It is fairly shocking, the absence of mullet from many areas.
I have spoken to many anglers who's would have fished each year in areas and this year they did not even bother....no fish present.
It is a frustrating exercise. I have spoken to many people involved with science and government and there is not light at a the end of the tunnel. There is no straightforward way to get a species "on the agenda". We as anglers do not have representation nor lobbying power.
In the interm, I am going to try and publicise the facts closer to the anniversary. I will resurrect the thread from my facebook page ( it should be compulsory reading... Some of the "commercial" attitudes are unreal). I will write an article for TopFisher.eu and who knows might even get it into mainstream....
Maybe the likes of IFI might notice....
danbrosnan wrote:Again I've said this before, the state are now issuing licences to fishermen who are out of work, mullet licences... They have issued some in cromane harbour and I betcha if you search deep enough they have issued ones to cork harbour... I am not making this up, I was told directly by a fishery officer from south kerry, I reported a net and the officer rang me cause the local guys were off sick or something at the time, when he rang we stayed talking for the bones of an hour and I had a very interesting conversation.. He told me it was political and the mullet are being sold by the tonne as fish meal...
JimC wrote:Getting angling into the mainstream media is great. Only thing is they appear to only want the hard luck stories. We are beginning to look like a bunch of tree hugging whingers
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