Illegal Fishing Fines

[Hylander]

https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/24327816.anglers-fined-3-000-fishing-illegally-norfolk/?ref=eb&nid=2399&block=article_block_a&u=c160d74be8c30ff96c1e228a4a7f5f71&date=180524

[BroadAmbition]

Good - Serves em right

Griff

[Andrewcook]

It's good to see these Illegal people  on the Norfolk Broads getting caught and fine for No  Licence and fishing where they shouldn't be.

[Regulo]

I'm not an angler and don't have much knowledge on the subject, so could someone explain the offence of fishing for bream, please? If you dangle your equipment in the river, how do you tell bream to leave it, but others to have a nibble? 

[Hylander]

1 hour ago, Regulo said:

I'm not an angler and don't have much knowledge on the subject, so could someone explain the offence of fishing for bream, please? If you dangle your equipment in the river, how do you tell bream to leave it, but others to have a nibble? 

It is not an offence to fish for Bream in the Season but not in the closed season.

[CeePee1952]

1 hour ago, Regulo said:

I'm not an angler and don't have much knowledge on the subject, so could someone explain the offence of fishing for bream, please? If you dangle your equipment in the river, how do you tell bream to leave it, but others to have a nibble? 

I suspect that the person concerned was fishing for the "pot" and most probably had quite a few fish on the bank to take home. The byelaw that he was prosecuted under prohibits such activity. During my time in the forces in Germany, I was a member of a local German angling club and the owner of the lake that we used to fish had a lot of problems with foreign people coming to the lake, buying a day ticket and subsequently taking a lot of roach, bream etc home for the pot. One such individual stopped coming after the owner threatened him with a hunting rifle - but that's another story!!

Chris

[BrundallNavy]

The guy caught fishing Bream was on August 22 which I believe is in the fishing season   Is there a ban on Bream fishing if so how do you not catch them. 

[BroadAmbition]

Wasn’t the issue that he was removing Bream from the river rather than returning them?

Griff

[Hylander]

An old saying and true - when in Rome etc.   I think people who arrive in this country forget that we have our rules as they certainly have in their own countries.   

[rightsaidfred]

3 hours ago, Regulo said:

I'm not an angler and don't have much knowledge on the subject, so could someone explain the offence of fishing for bream, please? If you dangle your equipment in the river, how do you tell bream to leave it, but others to have a nibble? 

The offence is removing the fish for eating not catching them, all course fish should be returned to the water.

Fred

[Regulo]

Then why state bream specifically? Surely taking of coarse fish from the river generally would cover the offence? Just seemed a strange statement to me! 

[CeePee1952]

As I alluded to earlier, the person most probably had bream that he had caught either lying on the bank next to him or already in some sort of container ready to take home. This is most probably why the offence specifically mentioned bream.  The link below might help to explain things a bit better.

https://www.gov.uk/freshwater-rod-fishing-rules/fish-size-and-catch-limits#:~:text=Coarse (freshwater) fish,2 grayling (30cm to 38cm)

Chris

 

[floydraser]

As far as I am aware there's nothing specific about bream and I think it may just have been the species he was caught with. I have heard that carp are also a favourite for the pot and some have gone missing from fisheries around here in the Midlands. I'm afraid it's a growing problem but well done for prosecuting this lot.

[marshman]

Ah - but he removed the bream, probably for his tea!  I, on balance, prefer a nice bit of haddock from the Blofield chippie - and very nice it it was too!!!!!

[rightsaidfred]

2 hours ago, floydraser said:

As far as I am aware there's nothing specific about bream and I think it may just have been the species he was caught with. I have heard that carp are also a favourite for the pot and some have gone missing from fisheries around here in the Midlands. I'm afraid it's a growing problem but well done for prosecuting this lot.

Yes Carp and Pike, here in London they have also taken whole populations of Swans, this has been a major problem for years,often by organised gangs.

Fred