Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 475: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide licences for draft net salmon fishing for small boats at a location (details supplied) on a river; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35928/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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In the case of bays and estuaries into which two or more rivers flow, the expert advice requires that all impacted rivers are meeting their conservation limits before harvest of salmon stocks is permitted.

At present, the published assessment in respect of the common estuary in Lough Swilly indicates that the rivers Mill, Swilly and Lennan are not meeting their conservation limits. Accordingly, for conservation reasons, the harvest of fish is not permissible in the area referred to by the Deputy.

The status of the stocks of salmon rivers is reviewed annually.