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Thread #52538   Message #807931
Posted By: GUEST,Brian F. Hannon
21-Oct-02 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: Toome Eel Fisheries - Free Lough Neagh!
Subject: RE: Toome Eel Fisheries - Free Lough Neagh!
Quakes ????   I never heard tell of anyone called that afore . However , I will now Kerne about an Act " THE GOVERMENT " done in the Seventies . Favouring the Existence of TOURISTS and the Angling Lobby and STEADFASTLY Ignoring The LOUGH NEAGH FISHERMEN . They Introduced a fish called ROACH in the Lough Neagh System . These Fish are uneatable and are tossed out on the Land for the Granny Gulls till ate . As said to me the other Day by a LOUGH NEAGH Fisherman in person . They have Reached PESTENSIAL Numbers like the Bull Frogs in Australia . ROACH are Caught by the Netfull with No other fish amongst them . Or one catches Other Fish and no Roach . Their Numbers are still Growing . What the end of it will be no one knows . They inter breed with Rudd and Bream producing Hybrids .It was a bad Doing of them .