Should you need a boat license in the UK?

[chartnavigator]

Just for the record, .... you need a license for each rod and you need a license for the boat to allow fishing from it.

The licence for the boat concerns me, but who ever heard of fishing from a boat with a rod. Just a weighted line some hooks and some bait is all you usually need. Plus, if no rods, who can see that you're fishin'?

Whose fish are they anyhow?

 

[AngusMcDoon]

It is spelt LICENCE but what else would you expect from the work-experience lackeys of YBW?

You need to tell Dyl as well...

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/10-rounds-with-the-canal-and-river-trust/

 

[robertj]

Just for the record, here in Greece you can fish from the beach but if you fish from any boat you need a license for each rod and you need a license for the boat to allow fishing from it.

There is a precident in the UK for this. You need a licence for the boat for a VHF and you need an operators license. So expect sea fishing licenses, courtesy of the EU, any day soon!

John

it's about time the dog started wagging the tail in this country and come out of the EC.
This german organisation needs to be put to bed once and for all!

 

[ukmctc]

I have two minds about the need to have a license in the UK. While Americans have the right to bare arms we in Britain have a right to float a boat. However as a Lifeboat crewman we are called out to a lot of issues that results from a lack of knowledge and understanding of boat handling and basic seamanship.

What do you guys think, should a license be required on UK waters? This could be a Day Skipper/ICC for coastal waters when using yachts and respective power craft or dinghy/keelboat and powerboat level 2 for their respective level.

I find it amazing that the question even came up, but to put it in the same sentence as the right to bare arms.....really

and no, I've seen yacht masters and RYA instructors qualified up to the hilt make big mistakes, a bit of paper makes no difference. For it to work the standards of instruction and quality of examination would have tobe standardised and that won't happen.