asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is prepared to take steps to ensure, if necessary by the introduction of proposals for legislation, that private interests in relation to salmon and eel fishing in the Corrib be bought out.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Corrib Salmon and Eel Fishing.
The use of nets in fresh water for the capture of salmon, trout and eels has been prohibited as from 1st January, 1948, on a compensatory basis by virtue of Section 35 of the Fisheries Act, 1939. Part V of that Act provides for the transfer to the State of certain commercial fisheries referred to in the Act as "transferable fisheries". The necessary Order bringing that part of the Act into operation has not, however, yet been made, but the matter is under consideration.
Does the Parliamentary Secretary not agree that the present arrangement is not only entirely ludicrous but anachronistic and that certain vested interests in Galway or on the Corrib are winning an extraordinary harvest out of circumstances which he must agree are entirely fortuitous?
I entirely agree.