licence scrapped?

**Ian Houlton** · 19-03-2008, 19:19

I jujst had a PM asking me if I knew the sea angling Licence idea had been scrapped officially.
Anyone heard anything about this?

**rocket** · 19-03-2008, 19:22

http://www.worldseafishing.com/forum...d.php?t=107175

**blueskip** · 19-03-2008, 19:26

Jonathan Shaw announced that after discussions with SACN & NFSA & with him & DEFRA talking to RSA's around the country, they were told in no uncertain terms what was expected if they introduced a licence. Seeing as they had no intentions whatsoever of doing anything for the money, they took the gypsies warning, & bottled it!

I cant wait to rub this into Ron & his cronies, who have been been quoting Fraser from "Dads Army", "We are all dooooomed Capn Mainwaring", so much for "You heard it here first"!

blueskip

**DINOBOY** · 19-03-2008, 19:42

poke that one alan yates

**chris grace** · 19-03-2008, 19:43

the only problem I can see now is that we may be told that as we dont contribute directly (financialy) to the welfare of our fish we cant have a say in how its managed.
But then again what say do we have now ,apart from protesting, which as we can now see does work!!!
lets NOT be magnanimous in victory,up yours, Brown , Blair et-al.

**CWoody** · 19-03-2008, 19:44

Yeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwwwwww

**merlin42om** · 19-03-2008, 19:55

Originally Posted by DINOBOY

poke that one alan yates

My sentiments exactly - devils advocate or not. & I didnt have to write it down & wait 24 hours before posting it.

**blueskip** · 19-03-2008, 20:47

Originally Posted by chris grace

the only problem I can see now is that we may be told that as we dont contribute directly (financialy) to the welfare of our fish we cant have a say in how its managed.
But then again what say do we have now ,apart from protesting, which as we can now see does work!!!
lets NOT be magnanimous in victory,up yours, Brown , Blair et-al.

We only still have the status quo, but at least we dont have to pay a licence fee for getting nothing else. Our next course of action (seeing as apparently the DO listen) is to say EXACTLY what we WILL pay for, seeing as we have told them we WONT pay for nothing.

That is when we will have some say in the management, when it is realised that we ARE an important financial player, we DO have a voice, we DO have expertise at our disposal, & we are prepared to PAY for management that WE agree with. I reckon that would make us the only LICENCE PAYING stakeholders in the sea (commercial licences are free initially, they are only "sold on" at a price), I reckon that would make US the payer who calls the pipers tune?

blueskip

**kato** · 19-03-2008, 20:55

That's great in my opinion. It means that holiday anglers and day trip anglers will still get the chance to start Sea Fishing, without first getting a license - good old Magna Carta!!!