just read this on another site

[Charlie_Thompson]

Stephen Byers will ride to the rescue

[occasionalkevin]

Forget Milliband

Annoy Mr. Blur (or is that a band?

Try signing this petition and get everyone else to do the same

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/seaanglerlisence/

[fozally]

Just done mine.

I would suggest one of the Administrators places this or a new thread which stays on the top of all threads so it stands out when anyone logs on. The more signatures the merrier.

I hope Milliband dips his suppositories in Ralgex instead of Vaseline by mistake.

[seddo]

Typed a large section about this disgusting proposal, pressed the wrong key and lost the lot.
Anyway, added my name to the Petition as this ( hopefuuly ) will be more rewarding.
I will have to take my vent out on the fishies at the weekend.

[mickthefish]

so who knows how much they propose to charge ?
if its more than 8p they can fcuk off !

[andysc]

If paying for a licence meant the end of all local gill netting then id happily pay.

[sless]

i wouldnt hold your breath mate

[Steve115]

If paying for a licence meant the end of all local gill netting then id happily pay.

I'm with you on that one:

I'd happily pay a licence fee if like they say artificial reefs were built, a golden mile was introduced and a plan was drawn up to improve the sport.

Iceland have proved that no-fish zones, breeding and nursery grounds massively improve fish stocks. The management of the fish stocks will have a cost associated which I think the people benefitting from should pay for.

The other thing is an independant governing body should be formed to act as a voice for the anglers. Maybe they should also be the peolple who decide how the licence revenue is spent.

Just a thought - anybody agree?

Steve

[fishfinder]

The anglers of the UK create a revenue of over 1 billion pound per year matching if not out weighing the commercials.. why should we pay further to put right the damage done to our fish stocks by commercial fishing and a greedy government!!
The government needs us more than we need them!! if everyone wrapped in fishing because theres nowt there they'd loose a lot of money!!
Surely it should be them trying to make changes to attract more people to the sport to create yet more revenue!!!!!
I was at an nfsa meeting two year ago as was Marksworld and Yourstuly. They mentioned a golden mile then!! they also asked if they could take something away from the meeting and use it as a show of strength to show us that they meant business ..I think the pots off shields pier was mentioned and one of the piers closed to anglers was to be re-opened .... we are still waiting and as yet nothings happened... illegal netting still takes place, defra don't appear to have extra bodies patrolling the shoreline..
They are full of false promises..and I don't think a rod licence would change that ..just another way to tax us!!!

[Steve115]

The anglers of the UK create a revenue of over 1 billion pound per year matching if not out weighing the commercials..

Where does that revenue come from Paul? Is it a total for coarse, sea and fly fishing or Sea angling alone?

Steve

[fishfinder]

Shore I presume as it was a meeting about recreational shore angling ..1million anglers apparantly ..nfsa's words not mine!!

http://www.nfsa.org.uk/

[mickthefish]

thing is , where is this all going to end ?
its pretty scary the fact they can just start overruling ancient laws at a click of their grubby little fingers (i.e. magna carte etc ) .
whats going to happen in 20 yrs time when the government are sitting nicely on a 50 million a year (or whatever )license revenue , which will be budgeted for and more than likely spent craply , and the fish stocks continue to dwindle ? (which they will ).
what next ?a Ł25 3 cod ticket ? with a * guaranteed 1 fish to take home if you blank?
i can see it now , a queue of floaty clad , tackle laden anglers , blanking vouchers aloft , snaking down to the tuxedo royale from the fish counter at tescos on the high street after every open comp .
god bless our kids !

* subject to availability.

[Glenn Kilpatrick]

All though I'm sure you had tongue in cheek whilst posting that Mick I feel anything is possible. You just have to take a look at which organisations the government are talking to about this. The SACN and the national federation of sea anglers who I feel know very little about fishing in our area and base the national angling experience on a bass catching bread floating model as used by our southern counterparts.

At one stage we asked to get a friend of mine Paul Kilpatrick into the meetings with DEFRA. As a local charter skipper and lifelong north east shore angler he would have represented those of us in the north east well. Despite offering to take time away from work and head to London at his own expense Paul was refused admission to the meetings. So what you continue to have when the government talks to anglers is a rather biased view from bass and mullet anglers.

Don't be surprised if you don't get the free fish for blanking though.

[potts123]

he can stick it where the sun dont shiine

[sless]

at the end of the day if you need a license
you need a licence
full stop

tax man wins again
and all the big names from daarn saaff
will be getting nice big company cars paid for by us lot

it stinks more than a week old squid in the boot of ya car