Post by Hoppy on Nov 17, 2005 19:32:56 GMT -1
The Inland Fishery Stakeholder Group was formally convened on 2nd February 2005 to provide advice to the Welsh Assembly Government on the formulation of a sustainable fishery policy for the management of the salmon and freshwater fisheries of Wales.
The Group comprised representatives drawn from private fishery owners, game angling, coarse angling and commercial salmon fishing throughout Wales. The advice of this Group will be considered alongside parallel advice from the marine fishery & aquaculture sectors and then incorporated into development of an Over-Arching Fisheries Strategy for Wales.
If adopted by the Welsh Assembly Government, this strategy will define the future policies and investment priorities for the long-term development of the marine and freshwater fishing industries in Wales.
The initial membership of the Group in each of the four inland fishery sectors was: -
Private Owners:
Robert Phillips
Dr Stephen Marsh-Smith (Chair)
Keith Heminsley
John Roe.
Coarse Anglers.
Robin Darker
Jon Taylor.
Nick Massey.
Eric Humphries.
Salmon Netsmen
Mike Elias *1
Martin Morgan *2
Tony Randalls
Ian Harries
*1 Resigned after first meeting on 5/2/2005: *2 Resigned after second meeting on 6/4/2005
Game Angling.
Lynn Hughes.
Dr. Graeme Harris ( Vice Chairman )
Huw Hughes.
Martin Powell
Sue Parker.
Unfortunately the Group has received no tangible contribution from the Coarse Fishing sector to date. Consequently, the recommendations detailed here relate solely to the game fish and game fisheries of Wales.
Although the Group has yet to finally agree and ‘sign-off’ the precise details of its formal recommendations to the Over-Arching Group, it is intended to consult with as many stakeholders as possible within each of its four fishery sectors. This interim report is presented to the membership of the CFF to update them on progress and to draw their attention to the general scope and content of the report. Members are now invited to comment on the detail of the recommendations and to suggest practical means of obtaining even wider feed-back from within the Welsh game fishing community.
In considering its recommendations, the Group has been very conscious of two things that have served to influence its deliberations. Firstly, this report represents the first opportunity ever provided to the fishery community in Wales to address its collective views directly to Government. This opportunity must not be wasted on parochial issues. Secondly, it was very aware that times are rapidly changing in that the environmental, pressures that now affect the status and health of our fisheries and the organisational, political and social pressures that influence how we now need to manage them are very different to those that applied until quite recently. The Group has therefore endeavoured to respond positively and constructively to those changes: not only to the uncertainties and threats that they pose but also to the challenges and opportunities they also provide for the future management of Welsh fisheries.
In view of this very welcome and unprecedented opportunity provided by the Welsh Assembly Government to influence the future priorities and direction of fisheries management in Wales, it is perhaps not surprising that the Group has identified a wide range of issues that need to be addressed in one way or another. However, in listing the specific recommendations, it has attempted to identify only those central issues of strategic and tactical importance that are of general concern and relevance throughout Wales as a whole.
The provisional recommendations of the Group are detailed in the accompanying schedule. They are addressed under a series of headings that broadly relate to the basic tenets of fisheries management everywhere: namely ‘Managing the Fish’, ‘Managing the Environment’ and ‘Managing the People’. Although each of the specific recommendations is relevant in either a general or specific context, the Group has taken the collective view that the following broader topics are of immediate priority and in need of urgent action. It is considered that until these matters are resolved the inland fisheries of Wales will fail to realise their full potential to benefit local fishermen, visiting anglers, local communities and the Welsh Nation.
Gethyn
The Group comprised representatives drawn from private fishery owners, game angling, coarse angling and commercial salmon fishing throughout Wales. The advice of this Group will be considered alongside parallel advice from the marine fishery & aquaculture sectors and then incorporated into development of an Over-Arching Fisheries Strategy for Wales.
If adopted by the Welsh Assembly Government, this strategy will define the future policies and investment priorities for the long-term development of the marine and freshwater fishing industries in Wales.
The initial membership of the Group in each of the four inland fishery sectors was: -
Private Owners:
Robert Phillips
Dr Stephen Marsh-Smith (Chair)
Keith Heminsley
John Roe.
Coarse Anglers.
Robin Darker
Jon Taylor.
Nick Massey.
Eric Humphries.
Salmon Netsmen
Mike Elias *1
Martin Morgan *2
Tony Randalls
Ian Harries
*1 Resigned after first meeting on 5/2/2005: *2 Resigned after second meeting on 6/4/2005
Game Angling.
Lynn Hughes.
Dr. Graeme Harris ( Vice Chairman )
Huw Hughes.
Martin Powell
Sue Parker.
Unfortunately the Group has received no tangible contribution from the Coarse Fishing sector to date. Consequently, the recommendations detailed here relate solely to the game fish and game fisheries of Wales.
Although the Group has yet to finally agree and ‘sign-off’ the precise details of its formal recommendations to the Over-Arching Group, it is intended to consult with as many stakeholders as possible within each of its four fishery sectors. This interim report is presented to the membership of the CFF to update them on progress and to draw their attention to the general scope and content of the report. Members are now invited to comment on the detail of the recommendations and to suggest practical means of obtaining even wider feed-back from within the Welsh game fishing community.
In considering its recommendations, the Group has been very conscious of two things that have served to influence its deliberations. Firstly, this report represents the first opportunity ever provided to the fishery community in Wales to address its collective views directly to Government. This opportunity must not be wasted on parochial issues. Secondly, it was very aware that times are rapidly changing in that the environmental, pressures that now affect the status and health of our fisheries and the organisational, political and social pressures that influence how we now need to manage them are very different to those that applied until quite recently. The Group has therefore endeavoured to respond positively and constructively to those changes: not only to the uncertainties and threats that they pose but also to the challenges and opportunities they also provide for the future management of Welsh fisheries.
In view of this very welcome and unprecedented opportunity provided by the Welsh Assembly Government to influence the future priorities and direction of fisheries management in Wales, it is perhaps not surprising that the Group has identified a wide range of issues that need to be addressed in one way or another. However, in listing the specific recommendations, it has attempted to identify only those central issues of strategic and tactical importance that are of general concern and relevance throughout Wales as a whole.
The provisional recommendations of the Group are detailed in the accompanying schedule. They are addressed under a series of headings that broadly relate to the basic tenets of fisheries management everywhere: namely ‘Managing the Fish’, ‘Managing the Environment’ and ‘Managing the People’. Although each of the specific recommendations is relevant in either a general or specific context, the Group has taken the collective view that the following broader topics are of immediate priority and in need of urgent action. It is considered that until these matters are resolved the inland fisheries of Wales will fail to realise their full potential to benefit local fishermen, visiting anglers, local communities and the Welsh Nation.
Gethyn