Sea Angling Ireland tell us:
Next thursday (29th) Ear To The Ground are featuring a piece about Irish Bass angling and the commercial sectors efforts to have the law changed. It will be on RTE1 at 8.30pm and will be the second item featured on the show. Try to get to see it if you can. It will be interesting to see how they deal with the subject.
While I supplied them with some background material I was unable to get on the show. It will however feature Jim Hendrick and Dr Ed Fahy, both of whom made some very strong arguments for sea anglers according to the researcher that I spoke to today.
Web: www.seaanglingireland.org
Jim Hendrick tell us:
So when I spoke to the interviewer I spoke about tackle shops, restaurants, shops, pubs, B+B’s, hotels, charter boats, fishing guides the hundreds of anglers and the integrated network of business that is developing around bass fishing in this country both from a National and an International basis. This is not a ‘Jim Hendrick’ story this is a National angling resource that belongs to everyone who wishes to use it properly and sustainably – the fishery is not held in the ownership or false stewardship of a few people who think they have a God given right to it at the expense of everyone else.
Speaking ‘economically’ seems to be the buzz word – to get us back to where we were before! Where were we, before, exactly? A quick hit by the commercial industry does NOT mean lots of jobs over many years it means a quick smash and grab on a species that should never be commercially exploited, a two fingered gesture to everyone who has benefited from the small recovery and also to the extended commitment of protection and promotion afforded to the species in ways that reach far beyond the economics of the situation….
Read Jim’s article ‘The story that nobody talks about’
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Jim Hendrick
Bass Angling Guide
SEAi, 8 St Johns Road, Wexford, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 53 23351
E-mail: sportfishing@eircom.net Web: www.probassfisher.com
