Anglers' Joy As Sea Licences Plan Scrapped ; Moves by the Government to Abandon Plans for Sea-Fishing Licences Will Be Welcomed by Thousands of South Devon Anglers.

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Moves by the Government to abandon plans for sea-fishing licences will be welcomed by thousands of South Devon anglers.

The move follows several years of campaigning by the Buckfastleigh-based National Federation of Sea Anglers to convince successive fisheries ministers that because fish-stocks were so seriously depleted by commercial over-fishing, the few fish left for anglers were not worth buying a licence to catch.

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Anglers' Joy As Sea Licences Plan Scrapped ; Moves by the Government to Abandon Plans for Sea-Fishing Licences Will Be Welcomed by Thousands of South Devon Anglers.

A provision enabling licences to be imposed has been withdrawn from the Government's big new Marine Bill due to be publis...

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