Possible Beach Fishing Ban

[Coddy]

Hi all

 

Sussex shore fishers have a threat of being baned from beach fishing between 1st May & 30th September.

 

If you want to read the article go here http://www.worldseafishing.com/blogsdiarie...ishing_ban.html

 

There is a link to sign up to a on-line petition if you wish.

 

Dave

[Neal]

 

I would suspect that their are restrictions in place locally as well.

 

If you were to set up a beachcaster or 2 along the Bournemouth / Sandbanks

Sea front in the middle of a hot weekend in mid-summer and start swinging leads about - I am sure you would be requested to move on very quickly.

 

If a bye-law doesn't exist to cover this, I am sure one should - just in case common sense doesn't prevail.

 

I suspect it's just the "Elf n Safety" brigade covering their backsides.

 

Neal

[ospreyman]

folks

the ban only covers a section of the beach in the town centre. a more worrying issue is an offence of causing annoyance ect by fishing on any of the miles of coastline in rother

greg

[duncan]

folks

the ban only covers a section of the beach in the town centre. a more worrying issue is an offence of causing annoyance ect by fishing on any of the miles of coastline in rother

greg

indeed Greg

 

sense would seem to have the 'fishing lobby' agreeing to the restrictions on the use of that (small) beach between say 0700 - 2200h over those months and suggesting that existing, wide ranging, bye-laws covering antisocial behavior are more than adequate currently, rather than being seen to target the fishing population as a whole.