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rachelk

Joined: 25 Aug 2011
Posts: 99
Location: thrapston gardening foraging or preserving in the kitchen or eating of course

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 11 8:01 pm Post subject:
i'm happy with string and garden cane to give myself a free meal one a week. if i can dangle it now and again when i'm out for a walk by the river. not in it to make money.

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 12 11:46 am Post subject:
Illegal on fresh water https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?26356-The-sweetest-handline-you-ever-saw!-(hobo-fishing-wood-porny)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 12 12:02 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Just check that the area has the right kind of crayfish. It is illegal to catch the endangered native ones.

And it's illegal to transport the other ones, most advice is not to catch them:

https://www.invasivespeciesscotland.org.uk/invasive_non_native_species/north_american_signal_crayfish.asp

I believe a license anywhere in the UK

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 12 11:13 pm Post subject:
We get them by net when trout fishing, cause there are so many of them

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 12:44 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

Just check that the area has the right kind of crayfish. It is illegal to catch the endangered native ones.

I believe a license anywhere in the UK

Last I checked, a license is required to trap, and this is largely to protect otters, etc from accidental entrapment.
If you catch them without a trap, you don't need the license.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 12:44 am Post subject:

boisdevie1 wrote:

Illegal on fresh water
https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?26356-The-sweetest-handline-you-ever-saw!-(hobo-fishing-wood-porny)

Why illegal?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4630
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 9:32 am Post subject:
Not wanting to imply anything, but please check where you're fishing. There are a lot of problems at the moment with people fishing from/in nature reserves...often with a taste for carp and claiming not to understand English I gather most rivers are covered by angling clubs too?

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 9:59 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

boisdevie1 wrote:

Illegal on fresh water
https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?26356-The-sweetest-handline-you-ever-saw!-(hobo-fishing-wood-porny)

Why illegal?

From a couple of posts down on the same forum.
""Fishing by means other than that of a rod and line" is the classic poaching charge - this covers; spear, rake, cleek, tailer and a whole raft of things described as "Fixed Engines". "

Northern Boy

Joined: 04 Oct 2010
Posts: 976

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 10:13 am Post subject:

12Bore wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

boisdevie1 wrote:

Illegal on fresh water
https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?26356-The-sweetest-handline-you-ever-saw!-(hobo-fishing-wood-porny)

Why illegal?

Quoting a couple of random posts from a forum dedicated to carving wooden paddles is hardly the highest standard of evidence.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 10:36 am Post subject:

Ok then, remind me not to take any notice of anything anyone puts on Downsizer........

Try page one of the Environment Agency North West Fisheries Byelaws.

"Anyone, irrespective of their age, fishing for salmon, trout, freshwater fish or eels with any instrument other than rod and line, in these waters, must have a licence issued by the Environment Agency"

https://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Leisure/North_West_Byelaws.pdf

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 12 6:06 pm Post subject:

12Bore wrote:

"Anyone, irrespective of their age, fishing for salmon, trout, freshwater fish or eels with any instrument other than rod and line, in these waters, must have a licence issued by the Environment Agency"

Requiring a license does not make a thing illegal. Thanks for the link though.

Coming back a point or few, I think the waterways of Britain are a massively underutilised resource, particularly in terms of food production. It would not take a lot to massively increase yield.
Presumably the anglers would be against this idea though: if the rivers were full of fish, then it would take away the challenge.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 12 2:27 pm Post subject:

ea rod licence covers most conversations

"free "water with trout /grayling is good
size and date regs are for a reason ,big trout use small ones as harvesters before they eat them and then spawn some more

some waters have a no return policy for some species ,most are harm and return for all .i dont like keeping fish to amuse in a catch ,photo ,return way .i could say bad words about that

haul it in ,kind death ,dinner or swim with it and watch ,
why do peeps want to catch and return ,if i did it with blackbirds or kittens id get locked up

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 12 2:30 pm Post subject:
ps yes if you have the right water

robert

Joined: 05 Mar 2012
Posts: 28
Location: merthyr tydfil south wales

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 12 10:24 pm Post subject:
there are laws preventing the catching and taking of certain spesiece of fish for the table in this country. Course fish are a no,no. Trout,salmon,grayling when in season, but you should always check with your local angling club

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 12 1:49 am Post subject:
i miss the trout and greyling ,karma will visit the guilty

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