Ive not seen it discussed on this forum but if I lived on your side of the Irish Channel this would drive me ffkn nuts.
If an illeagal netsman is proscecuted he can not be proscecuted again that year,so in other words .
Call the authorities tell them theres a guy netting down the road , get in your boat and wait to be arrested. Pay the 4000 euro fine and then fish for the rest of the year unhindered by the authorites.
Its a classic!
The script writters for Father ted could not have come up with that one!