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Can Ireland’s Nets Men and Anglers work together to achieve greater abundance for Atlantic salmon in Ireland ? I was interested to read the points made by Mr Patrick Keys of Moville in his open letter to Minister Dempsey in … Continue reading →

Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature;  Towards a formula for sustainability.  It was interesting to read the report of comments made by Joey Murrin at the conference on the EU Maritime Green Paper, “Towards a better Future Maritime Policy … Continue reading →

All I want to do is Fish and be a Hunter Gatherer! As an angler I have sympathy for the way William Lynch was treated by the Lochs agency and his despair at being refused permission to fish for salmon. … Continue reading →

Two Reports for a Sustainable Future; Steering a New Course and Sea Change. Destructive decommissioning or sustainable mothballing Please find my interpretation of these two reports. Understanding the implications was certainly not bedtime reading and required full concentration, to understand … Continue reading →

Bio diversity The meeting is being held in the context that there is now enough evidence to be confident that global warming is a real and present threat. The aim of this meeting is to guide the delivery of a … Continue reading →

Response to Consultation: Environmental and Social Guidance for Water and sewage Charges Brendan Kerr Natural Living Assets www.naturallivingassets.com 3 Greenridge Park Bangor BT19 6AN 07852 685 854   1.6 It is interesting that “no disproportional impact between rural and urban … Continue reading →

 Response to The Department of the Environment (DOE) Consultation re Budget Proposals. Ecological status as a basis for a more sustainable, competitive NI needs to given a high priority. There has been so much preparatory work completed over the last … Continue reading →

Two Reports, the Marine Institute’s “Sea Change” and Cawley’s “Steering a New Course” as a Context for a sustainable future. The context for the Cawley report is that Fish Stocks are declining and increasingly the fishing industry is under threat … Continue reading →

Can Nets men and Anglers can work together to ensure greater Abundance of Wild Atlantic salmon in Ireland? A good starting point would be to recognise the interdependence of mountain stream, surrounding habitat, rivers, estuaries and oceans.  There are many … Continue reading →

Is Freedom to Fish as a Hunter Gatherers Compatible with a Sustainable Future?  As an angler I have sympathy for the way Nets Men have been told they cannot fish for salmon in 2007 and beyond and the sense of … Continue reading →