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Thread #52538   Message #822423
Posted By: GUEST,Brian F. Hannon
09-Nov-02 - 05:49 PM
Thread Name: Toome Eel Fisheries - Free Lough Neagh!
Subject: RE: Toome Eel Fisheries - Free Lough Neagh!
For You All Read all   www.irishsociety.infm.ulst.ac.uk/ This older Body also had three Salmon weirs across the Bann which being the First three weirs for to catch the Salmon and our Absentee Landlord's Family having the fourth , the fifth at Kilrea , and the Sixth Weir at TOOME should make it clear to the Cynics here that this was a great Salmon Diversion from Irish Stomachs to Fill English Stomachs over these last 400 years . Read all about where they have 250 miles of Fishing Rights leased out to about 15 angling clubs now that they have reduced the Vast Shoals to just enough Remnant numbers to bait Tourists and Anglers . Our Absentee stopped commercial Netting around the 1950's so few got to his nets but the sea ward group only ceased commercial catching in around year 1985 . Thank God for our Totem Fish THE DOLLAGHAN , The Pollan , Bream , Perch, Pike , EEL , etc ,etc .