Irish Fishing Regulations
SALMON and SEA TROUT 2008
A State Licence is required to fish for salmon and sea trout, but does not entitle you to fish. Permits or permission from fisheries owners must be obtained.
OPEN FOR ANGLING
- River Fane (Subject to a quota)
CATCH AND RELEASE
- River Castletown
- River Boyne
- River Slaney (Catch & Release also applies to all sea trout on the Slaney)
(**If there is any abuse of catch and release, the Board will request that the River is closed to all fishing. The Board will have free copies of catch and release DVD’s in January**)
CLOSED FOR ALL SALMON AND SEA TROUT ANGLING
- River Liffey
CLOSED TO ANGLING FOR ALL SALMON AND FOR SEA TROUT OVER 40CM AND OPEN TO ANGLING FOR SEA TROUT UNDER 40CM
- Rivers Dee, Glyde and Flurry (Dundalk)
- Rivers Dargle and Vartry (Dublin)
- Rivers Avoca and Owenavarragh (Wexford) -Previous Avoca bye law (801 of 2005) will be renewed in 2008 this prohibited the killing of any sea trout in 2007 – Catch and release only permitted in 2008)
In the rivers, that are open (when the bag limit has been reached) or where catch and release applies or where fishing for sea trout under 40cm in a closed river;
- There is a ban on the use of worms
- Anglers must use single, barbless hooks
There is an annual angling bag limit of 10 fish per angler for salmon or sea trout (over 40cm). Subject to the maximum annual bag limit of 10 fish an angler may take:
- 3 salmon or sea trout (over 40cm) during the period from the start of the season to 11th May but not more than one fish on any day during that period,
- 3 salmon or sea trout (over 40cm) per day from 12th May to 31st August
- 1 salmon or sea trout (over 40cm) from the 1st September until the end of the fishing season.
The ban on the sale of rod caught salmon or sea trout caught from 1st January to the 31st October remains.
(These are guidelines only, please familiarise yourself with the 2006 Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations and Byelaws).
Salmon Licence Fees (2008)
- All Districts (i.e. all Regions) Annual: €134 (incl. €67 conservation stamp)
- Juvenile (under the age of 18 years) All Districts Annual: €20 (incl. €10 conservation stamp)
- One District, Annual: €64 (incl. €32 conservation stamp)
- All districts, 21 Days: €50 (incl. €25 conservation stamp)
- All districts, 1 Day: €36 (incl. €18 conservation stamp)
- Special Local (for Annual Licence holders) €26 (incl. €13 conservation stamp)
- Special Local (for non- Annual Licence holders) €100 (incl. €50 conservation stamp)
- Foyle Area Extension €84 (incl. €42 conservation stamp)
Single Barbless Hooks, Worms 2007
Bye-law 824 of 2007 prohibits the use of any fish hooks, other than single barbless hooks, and the use of worms as bait in angling for all species of fish in the waters specified in the below:
No. 1 or Dublin District
- Vartry
- Dargle
- Liffey (excluding upstream of Pollaphuca dam and the river Dodder)
No. 2 or Wexford District
- Avoca
- Owenavorragh
- Slaney
No. 17 (1)or Drogheda District
- Boyne (the main channel)
- Dargle
- Kells Blackwater (downstream of the Nine Eyed Bridge)
No. 17 (2) or Dundalk District
- Flurry
- Glyde (that part of the river downstream of Castlebellingham Weir)
- Dee (that part of the river downstream of Cappogue Bridge)
Coarse Fish
Important notice! New angling bye laws!
- CONSERVATION OF AND PROHIBITION ON SALE OF COARSE FISH BYE-LAW NO. 806, 2006
The Coarse fish bye law provides for the following conservation measures:
• a bag limit of 4 coarse fish in any one day,
• prohibits the killing of any coarse fish greater than 25 cm in length,
• prohibits the sale of any coarse fish in Ireland (excluding NI), this
provision will not apply to fishing tackle dealers and fish bait suppliers
who have been granted an exemption from their respective Regional Fisheries
Board.
PIKE
Important notice! New angling bye laws!
- CONSERVATION OF PIKE BYE-LAW NO. 809, 2006
The pike bye law provides for the following conservation measures:
• a bag limit of 1 Pike in any one day,
• prohibits the killing of any pike greater than 50 cm in length,
• prohibits the possession by any person of more than 1 whole pike less
than 50 cm or more than 1.5 kgs of pike flesh, this provision does not apply
to a person storing pike or pike parts subject to conditions,
• prohibits the possession by any person of more than 12 fish for use
as bait subject to conditions.
A MEGŐRZÉS ÉRDEKÉBEN AJÁNLOTT, HOGY MINDEN CSUKÁT ÉLVE ENGEDJENEK VISSZA
A VÍZBE
W celu ochrony gatunku zalecane jest wrzucanie żywych szczupaków z powrotem
do wody
В охранных целях рекомендуется возвращать всех щук в воду живыми.
Dabas aizsardzības nolūkos ieteicams visas līdakas dzīvas atlaist atpakaļ
ūdenī.
Apsaugos tikslais rekomenduojama, kad visos lydekos būtų gyvos paleidžiamos
atgal į vandens telkinį.
SEA ANGLING
BASS
Minimum overall size limit of 40cm. From tip of snout to end of tail
Bass Fishing Conservation Bye-law (Renewed annually)
The effect of this Bye-law is to impose a bag limit on anglers of two bass in any one period of 24 hours and to provide for a ban on angling for bass during the spawning season (15th May to the 15th June).