is it legal to use this in uk?

[ninky]

not a strictly sailing question but my OH has just returned from a trip to his homeland and brought back a net a bit like this. his dad used to use one and he was hoping to try it out over here but i wondered if it would be allowed. i'm not a fishing person so i'm not familiar with the rules.

http://www.bni.com/Portals/0/Net Fishing 1.jpg

 

[fergie_mac66]

huge ferny whitmore

saw huge ferny whitington using one, or at least being shown,how to and attempting to use on, on his cottaging prog during last winter.

 

[VicS]

No not legal!

Should have got a cormorant instead

 

[Phideaux]

No not legal!

Should have got a cormorant instead

Really!

Which bit of the legislation are you referring to?

 

[VicS]

Which bit of the legislation are you referring to?

havent the faintest idea, none I would think.
Just an excuse to post the HSBC ad. and find out how to embed a YouTube video in a post

 

[Phideaux]

havent the faintest idea, none I would think.
Just an excuse to post the HSBC ad. and find out how to embed a YouTube video in a post

OK. Fair enough. But why the HSBC video? There must be some porn out there that would have sufficed!

 

[Cornishman]

Not legal on the Tamar Estuary, and probably not further upstream. There has been a moratorium on commercial net fishing for nearly 10 years which is about to be extended for another 5 years I hear. This is a voluntary thing by the commercial net fishermen to try to get more salmon spawning up river and that type of net, quite common in SE Asia, would certainly be not allowed in the Tamar Valley.

 

[ninky]

just to clarify he's planning to use at sea not a river / estuary.

 

[pugwash60]

And as it's not commercial it won't be a problem?

 

[Major Catastrophe]

It's a cast net, or throw net which are widely on sale in the UK and used with no problems. But check local byelaws if using one in controlled waters, like harbours and estuaries.

Here's one on ebay.

 

[duncan]

It's a cast net, or throw net which are widely on sale in the UK and used with no problems. But check local byelaws if using one in controlled waters, like harbours and estuaries.

Here's one on ebay.

way too sensible an answer...........

the other parts are of course - making the thing work and returning anything that is undersized etc as required by those bylaws

I haven't caught a thing in mine yet - and I've had it years!

 

[LadyInBed]

Not legal on the Tamar Estuary, ...
There has been a moratorium on commercial net fishing
This is a voluntary thing by the commercial net fishermen
would certainly be not allowed in the Tamar Valley.

So an amateur, not volunteering to be bound by the 'moratorium', out at sea casting for mackerel is ok then

 

[awol]

Being caught with a net like that near a salmon river in Scotland could lead to it and your boat being confiscated - better to use dynamite!

 

[ninky]

thanks for the answers. i suspect the fish are safe anyway!

 

[ninky]

btw i've been told this net is superior to the uk / ebay ones cos it's made of silk. the proof of the pudding as they say.......

 

[lenseman]

. . . I haven't caught a thing in mine yet - and I've had it years!

Try taking it down to a river and throwing it in the water?

 

[nedmin]

Congrats Vic S on your technical success !! That advert makes me a liitle bit mad because in real life the cormorant has a ring round its neck to stop the bird swallowing it! Wouldnt look good on telly.