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Angling Survey of Permit Holders

The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board is continuing to upgrade its managed fisheries and will over the coming years continue their programmes which are greatly assisted by funding under the E.U. Tourism Angling Measure T.A.M. To ensure that our fisheries are developed to a high standard, both for tourist and local anglers, the board would like to take this opportunity to seek your views on the future development of our fisheries through the completion of this form. The information submitted by respondents is confidential and only aggregate figures will be published No individual responses will be revealed to any person outside of the fisheries board. When you complete the form please hit the submit button at the bottom of this form. Thank you

Would you like to complete our General Questionnaire

 

1.

Your Name:
Address:
Tel or Tel/Fax No
Email Address

 

2. How often do you fish the Shannon Boards Managed Fisheries in a given year - No. of days

How many of these days require an overnight stay away from home

 

 

3. In what year did you start to fish our managed fisheries

In that time would you say that the fishing has

deteriorated a lot

deteriorated a little

stayed about the same

improved a little

improved a lot

 

 

4. Which of our Fisheries have you fished during 2000

a) Lough Acalla n) Killeglan River  
b) River Brosna o) Mount Dalton Lake  
c) Bunowen River p) Lough O'Flynn  
d) Castlegar Rivers North and South q) Lough Owel  
e) Clodiagh River r) Pallas Lake  
f) Cloonard River s) Lough Sheelin  
g) Lough Derravaragh t) River Shiven  
h) Lough Ennell u) Kilcormac Silver River  
i) Gageborough River v) River Suck  
j) Lough Glore w) Tirur River  
k) River Inny x) Ballyteigue Lake  
l) Island River y) Camcor River  
m) Killian River z) Little Brosna River  
             

 

 

5. If the quality of fishing has changed why would you say it has -

improved

deteriorated

Please give your comments for your choice

 

 

6. Other than angling, what facilities would you expect the Board to provide for anglers.

 

 

7. How many fish did you catch in 2000 - No's Weight

 

 

8. Would you say whether you agree or disagree with the following statements

 

Statements

strongly agree

agree

undecided

disagree

strongly disagree

not applicable
  a) Average size should be larger even if this means that fewer fish are present

  b) Fish should be more numerous even if this means that the average size is lower

  c) More information should be available about where to fish

  d) Physical access to waters is bad

  e)Waters are over crowded

  f) Boats should be numbered

  g) Fees for fishing are too high

  h) Boat hire is easy to obtain

  i) Bag limit of six fish is too high

  j) Permits are difficult to obtain

 

 

9. Have you any other comments or suggestions for the better management of these fisheries

Thank you for completing this survey. We appreciate your co-operation.

** NB: After you submit the form please do not forget to return to the form by clicking on the back button on your browser.  Thank you

 

 

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