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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

This doesn't look good...

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16 Feb 2015 15:43 #1 by JohnH (John)
www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/ar...oachers-say-anglers/

Sad times for some stretches of our Canals...

John

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N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


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16 Feb 2015 22:14 #2 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)
Found a 10ft landing net recently on the barrow FULL to the neck with fish (salmon dace pike and trout) that i assume had been left by a poacher
I recon there was close to 100 fish in the damn thing, most of them already dead!
I took photos and sent them to IFI (For all the good it done), between myself and another angler we cut the net into small pieces and left it under a rock for the poacher coming back!

Poachers ruin hunting, fishing and are a real issue

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16 Feb 2015 23:38 #3 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)
I'm not into fishing myself. Not a moral objection, it's just not my thing. But I've been hearing about this stuff going back a few years, people more or less decimating canals etc. with nets. I think it's easy to see places like the Amazon, Congo and other places as pristine, virgin environments and forget we have plenty of fauna to get wiped right at home... and we probably wouldn't see it coming.

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28 Feb 2015 21:14 #4 by Esoxluciouss (denis goulding)
It's a huge problem. More than anyone can imagine . It's going on ten years. Rules and regs have been changed to try and stop this . But it has little if any affect. Clubs have been born from this tragedy and they have taken Over the protection of many lakes. If you see anything while your out and about , ring the inland fishery board and the gardai please

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01 Mar 2015 12:08 #5 by JohnH (John)

It's a huge problem. More than anyone can imagine . It's going on ten years. Rules and regs have been changed to try and stop this . But it has little if any affect. Clubs have been born from this tragedy and they have taken Over the protection of many lakes. If you see anything while your out and about , ring the inland fishery board and the gardai please


Here is the IFI Fisheries Hotline number:

1890347424

John

Location:
N. Tipp

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01 Mar 2015 12:19 - 01 Mar 2015 12:20 #6 by JohnH (John)
As a result of the original article which we posted a link to here the IFI has had the newspaper print a 'sort of' rebuttal to this:

www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/ar...oyal-canal-says-ifi/

My own (personal) response is that 'they would say that, wouldn't they?' and please read the comments posted below that article - they tell us a lot more than the article does about the whole scenario.

John

Location:
N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


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Last edit: 01 Mar 2015 12:20 by JohnH (John). Reason: error

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