davestocker
Well-known member
...when he wrote in last weeks editorial comment column ?No one has the right to judge whether a pike has less value than a roach or perch??
Everyone has the right to ?judge? whatever they like ? it?s a free country and we all enjoy free speech! More seriously though, Richard Lee seems to be suggesting that fishery owners and managers shouldn?t be able to manage fisheries for whatever outcomes that they as proprietors choose. Now I happen to enjoy pike and trout fishing, and if a trout fishery owner decided he wanted rid of any pike that had established themselves in his fishery, whilst thinking him to be unwise, I would utterly defend his right to run his own fishery in whatever way he, as the proprietor, chooses.
The last thing this sport needs is anglers who think that their favourite fish is somehow sacred, and then seek to impose their view on others who might have a different view.
Everyone has the right to ?judge? whatever they like ? it?s a free country and we all enjoy free speech! More seriously though, Richard Lee seems to be suggesting that fishery owners and managers shouldn?t be able to manage fisheries for whatever outcomes that they as proprietors choose. Now I happen to enjoy pike and trout fishing, and if a trout fishery owner decided he wanted rid of any pike that had established themselves in his fishery, whilst thinking him to be unwise, I would utterly defend his right to run his own fishery in whatever way he, as the proprietor, chooses.
The last thing this sport needs is anglers who think that their favourite fish is somehow sacred, and then seek to impose their view on others who might have a different view.