Irish Angling News. Sport Fishing, Longlining and Trolling Updates
#Angling - Angling clubs and community development groups in the Midlands Fishery Group Permit Area will share funding of €50,000 this year to carry out sustainable fishery development projects. The Midland Fisheries Fund (MFF) was created by Inland Fisheries Ireland…
#Angling - The Galway Independent shines the spotlight on 15-year-old Ciarán Reilly, vice-captain of the cross-border Irish junior angling team headed to Wales nest week for the Home Counties International. The Loughrea lad has already been selected as captain of…
#Angling - Almost one in every 10 people in Northern Ireland went fishing in the last 12 months - but 70% of NI residents said they had no interest in the sport. These statistics were among the key findings in…
#Angling - Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has put out a request for assistance in its new National Bass Programme. IFI has established the National Bass Programme to collect data on bass in order to provide scientific advice to support management…
#Angling - Minister of State Fergus O'Dowd gave some words of encouragement ahead of the World Youth Fly Fishing Championships taking place this week till 26 July in venues across Louth, Monaghan, Meath, Tyrone and Antrim. The event will help…
#Angling - Minister of State for Natural Resources Fergus O’Dowd has warmly welcomed the findings of a new national economic study that reveals for the first time that angling and angling tourism in Ireland are generating a dividend in excess…
#Angling - The use of prawns and shrimp as bait in salmon angling could be banned in Northern Ireland under proposed restrictions on salmon and sea trout fishing, as Farming Life reports. Aside from the bait regulations, Stormont is also…
#Angling - Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is seeking the help of anglers and the general public to report any sightings of distressed fish due to high water temperatures or low water levels. The national fisheries body also requests that anglers…
#Angling - The World Youth Fly Fishing Championship is coming to Ireland's border region next month. And as the Carrick Times reports, Carrickfergus in Co Antrim is looking forward to hosting part of the event at the Woodford Fly Fishery.…
#Angling - Ireland's recreational angling sector generates more than half a billion euro annually, according to the Minister for Natural Resources. As the Irish Examiner reports, Minister Pat Rabbitte revealed the significant figure in a written response to a Dáil…
Anglers Barred From Selling River Salmon as NI Struggles With Invasive Species
1st June 2013 Angling
#Angling - From today 1 June, Northern Ireland's anglers are banned from selling salmon caught in rivers under new measures from the Legislative Assembly. As BBC News reports, Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure Carál Ní Chuilín said that the…
#Angling - Two men have been prosecuted in Co Tipperary for illegal fishing of spawning salmon. Michael Harding of Bansha and Neill Collins of Cullen were prosecuted by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) following investigations on the River Aherlow at Angelsboro,…
#Angling - Ireland’s top mentalist - and passionate angler - Keith Barry is encouraging kids of all ages to get hooked on angling during Fisheries Awareness Week 2013. Angling events for newcomers to the sport will continue at coastal and…
#Angling - Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has successfully prosecuted two men for taking more than the legal amount of coarse fish on Lough Derg. Roman and Vytas Maslauskas, brothers originally from Lithuania but living in Ireland for the last eight…
#Angling - London angler Peter Vasey topped the pack at the Waterways Ireland Classic Fishing Festival in Fermanagh recently, according to the Impartial Reporter. Vasey's total catch across two sections at Crom on Upper Lough Erne - weighing in at…
The dates for the 2014 angling exhibition, which will be held at the NSC (National Show Centre) in Swords, as per previous years are February 15th & 16th, 2014
