I am advised by the Northern Regional Fisheries Board that the following funds were granted to angling clubs or spent on fisheries with a resident angling club in the period from January 1997 to December 2003:
Direct Grants to Angling Clubs
|
€
|
Creeslough and District Anglers
|
28,575
|
Swilly and District Anglers
(work carried out by NRFB)
|
62,500
|
Kilmacrenan Anglers
|
1,000
|
L. Bawn Rural Development Assoc.
|
25,400
|
Belturbet Coarse Angling Club
|
5,080
|
Butlersbridge Trout Angling Co-operative
|
10,160
|
Belturbet Trout Angling Club
|
10,160
|
Cootehill Tourist & Angling Development Assoc.
|
5,080
|
Total
|
147,955
|
I am also advised that the Northern Regional Fisheries Board drew down grants from the Tourism Operational Programme 1994-99, the tourism angling measure, the NDP tourism and recreational angling measure and catchment management funding made available through my Department to carry out work on behalf of clubs on the following fisheries:
|
€
|
Rosses Fishery
|
20,000
|
Owenea River
|
267,500
|
Eske Fishery
|
345,485
|
Pettigo Lakes
|
60,547
|
Eany River
|
63,500
|
Total
|
757,032
|