Government rows back on angling regulations - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

Government rows back on angling regulations - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

The Government has signalled a partial U-turn on controversial plans to introduce a policy of Catch and Release for wild salmon on the Corrib. The Department of Climate, Energy and Environment late last year had indicated – following a public consultation – that it would introduce Catch and Release on the Corrib system as a wild salmon conservation measure. But just months after Inland Fisheries Ireland insisted it had scientific evidence to sup…