Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 177: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the State, through the Northern Regional Fisheries Board, hold fishing rights on the Gweebarra River, County Donegal. [16854/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
Link to this: Individually | In context

I am advised that the State through the Central Fisheries Board owns a large part of the Gweebarra fishery, which was acquired by the Land Commission. Other stretches are owned by the Department for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Under the Fisheries Acts, primary responsibility for the management, conservation, protection and development of the inland fisheries resource rests with the Central and Regional Fisheries Boards. The Northern Regional Fisheries Board manages the Gweebarra Fishery.