KEEP THE TRADITION OF SALMON NETTING ON THE TAMAR TAVY

as always with the EA when in doubt BAN IT, as always broken promises , its alright for the spoilt rich to catch them in there hundreds , and keep x amount , but for us plebs we can only catch i think its 8 a year ,if the salmon is so scarce ???????? then ban it all together no more rod and line fishing and no more keeping the catch , but we all know that wont happen, .......

its a tradition and should be kept ,,,,,,,,environment agency are full of tree talkers and bunny huggers and do as there told by the EU  and havent a clue , sorry i forgot and full of bullshit and lies. have delt with them for many years what they say at 09.30 by 10.30 its changed never been said and forgot ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

#1: fisherman -

Why is there a misconceived assumption that this is about wealthy riparian owners dictating to the EA. The Salmon stocks have hugely declined in the past 100yrs due to various ecological reasons, sea netting, poaching etc. The EA stopped the tidal netting 10 years ago, including a financial renumeration to the fisherman to cover "potential" losses, due to lack of Salmon entering the river system. The Salmon stocks are still massively depleted. This is about conservation of an amazing creature. Every Salmon removed from the Tamar further depletes precious stock. CONSERVATION or EXTINCTION, what is acceptable??

#3: -

Salmon have been disappearing from the river as long as I can remember. Carry on netting until they are no more, what will the netsmen do then??

#15: - Endsliegh fishing club promote catch and release fly fishing. Salmon are returned to the river to spawn. They have also committed huge financial investments into salmon conservation and restocking programmes to save the Tamar Salmon from disappearing. What will the nets do for conservation?

#19: - Its not one rule for one and not the other, catch and return fly fishing means the fish go back in the river not sold for profit.Fly fishing is a sport. If the netsmen want sport they should learn to use a rod like the real conservation minded fly fishermen. This is about conservation and if you don't understand that then sorry but your comments are misguided

As an angler and commercial,seasonal,traditional and whatever the next label the angling lobby will put on us netsman I have fished in the tradition of my forefathers and have used the same methods and gear to catch fish as they have over the last three hundred years yes thats right three hundred years and possibly more.I don't know what catastrophic event took place in the nineties but what ever it was it reduced the stock numbers of all the rivers in the British Isles over night(check your local river statistics on Cefas).Could it have been the invention of RSE or CL? Tamer Netsmen take about I.5% Rods take 2.5 of the RSE where does the other 97% go?
Tamar SAP? Not if they can't produce an annual return that satisfies the Tamar CL from 97%.of the RSE.