Change the Board of the IFI to give Anglers a fair representation and protect our fish stocks Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/change-the-board-of-the-ifi-to-give-anglers-a-fair-representation-and-protect-our-fish-stocks.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:08 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mr Terry Creighton [Signature #960] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24105876?utm_medium=rss No killing of any pike at all

]]> Wed, 12 May 2021 07:55:53 UTC 24105876 Mr Robert Medzai [Signature #959] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24084662?utm_medium=rss Coarse fishing is just as important as Salmon and Trout in the Republic of Ireland . It would create a larger revenue if it was managed properly and not just left to itself to reproduce fish stock . Evan if one had to pay for a rod licence it would hopefully increase fish stock if the money was used properly . As to fish poaching i think that any kind of boats be it inflatable or solid should be banned from some lake ( Smaller ones as poaching is made easier by this for example say Ballyquirke in Galway. Also weed control should only be carried out on rivers by people who have knowledge of of spawning times of fish not by idiots who don't give a shit . So that fry or fish eggs are not destroyed at spawning times of fish .

]]> Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:27:05 UTC 24084662 Mr. Paul Richter [Signature #958] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22300026?utm_medium=rss Protect the Fish!

]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:15:53 UTC 22300026 Mr Anonymous [Signature #957] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22295801?utm_medium=rss Tue, 24 Jul 2018 07:17:31 UTC 22295801 Mr Paddy Orourke [Signature #956] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22258245?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:42:37 UTC 22258245 Mr Anonymous [Signature #955] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21971905?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:08:23 UTC 21971905 Mr Anonymous [Signature #954] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21921216?utm_medium=rss Pike should be forbidden to be taken and killed in irish waters. Also, dredging the canals is ruining our coarse fishing!

]]> Sun, 3 Dec 2017 04:57:46 UTC 21921216 Mr James Meleady [Signature #953] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21726699?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Oct 2017 04:43:42 UTC 21726699 Mr Paul Cahill [Signature #952] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21705029?utm_medium=rss Protect our waters. Appreciate your country

]]> Thu, 5 Oct 2017 10:14:51 UTC 21705029 Mr David Boylan [Signature #951] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21601344?utm_medium=rss After being abroad and seeing proper fisheries management, returning to Ireland and looking at the state of our marine and freshwater ecosystems and fisheries was a big shock. We need to change this immediately so the next generation of anglers can enjoy our waters.

]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:38:11 UTC 21601344 mr Anonymous [Signature #950] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21505272?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:20:47 UTC 21505272 Mr Jason Kearney [Signature #949] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21263899?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:25:00 UTC 21263899 Mr Peter Fitzpatrick [Signature #948] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21263420?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Apr 2017 01:27:58 UTC 21263420 Mr Ken Brosnan [Signature #947] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21216825?utm_medium=rss Disband the IFI and create a whole new organisation which includes fishermen & women from all types of fishing.. the pike culling needs to stop.

]]> Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:38:38 UTC 21216825 Ms JACQUELINE PLATTEN [Signature #946] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21093602?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:19:48 UTC 21093602 Mr Anonymous [Signature #945] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21086297?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:54:22 UTC 21086297 Mr David Kennedy [Signature #944] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21010178?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:19:00 UTC 21010178 mr Anonymous [Signature #943] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20879048?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Nov 2016 03:06:05 UTC 20879048 mr richard flanagan [Signature #942] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20412941?utm_medium=rss Our waters have been decimated for 20 years now, please help ensure they are better protected, and introduce stiffer punishment for poachers. I'd like to be able to take my kids fishing in a few years.

Thank you

]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2016 03:40:40 UTC 20412941 mr laurence cooney [Signature #941] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20382261?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:09:29 UTC 20382261 mr Matus Tuska [Signature #940] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20373848?utm_medium=rss i agree that all course waters need more attention of IFI poaching is a BIG issue these days

]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:00:46 UTC 20373848 Mr David Duggan [Signature #939] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20342958?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Sep 2016 07:15:44 UTC 20342958 mr. Anonymous [Signature #938] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20342852?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Sep 2016 06:42:48 UTC 20342852 Mr Big Fish [Signature #937] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20339012?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:44:55 UTC 20339012 Mr Alan Graham [Signature #936] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20235186?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:46:07 UTC 20235186 Mr Chris Haines [Signature #935] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20219955?utm_medium=rss Most times I go Coarse fishing I see first hand or evidence of fish being killed. It's no wonder the stocks are decreased year on year. Plus fishing tourists less and less. Shame on the government and ifi.

]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2016 04:43:53 UTC 20219955 Mr Anthony Connolly [Signature #934] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20118392?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:29:16 UTC 20118392 mr. Ricardas Barbsys [Signature #933] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20113328?utm_medium=rss Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:38:27 UTC 20113328 Mr. Nikolajs Maksimcevs [Signature #932] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20091851?utm_medium=rss Sat, 9 Jul 2016 02:53:27 UTC 20091851 Mr. David McCormack [Signature #931] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20078409?utm_medium=rss Take a look at the carp abgling scene in the UK and see how much money it generates, while we have thousands of acres of clean lakes with practically no fish left in them, can people in power not see the revenue and tourism potential?

]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:06:29 UTC 20078409 Marc Anonymous [Signature #930] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20058207?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Jun 2016 01:09:10 UTC 20058207 Mr Paul Dunne [Signature #929] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20009223?utm_medium=rss I'm signing this in the hope some good comes from it

]]> Mon, 23 May 2016 10:45:06 UTC 20009223 Mr. Paul OBrien [Signature #928] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19883430?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:40:34 UTC 19883430 Mr Peter Brilowski [Signature #927] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19854058?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Mar 2016 02:45:18 UTC 19854058 Mr Darren Anthony Shortt [Signature #926] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19798265?utm_medium=rss To how it my concern .please stop all kinds of gill nesting in Irish lakes rivers and to try stop the pochen of Irish wildlife habitat and its waterways that not onley home to meny meny kinds of fish birds .but stop the killing of its pike rivers lake canals if ifi have for a long time puti g moneys in to its salmon River s .why can't something be done for Irish angler and ireland s pike and course anglers how come to fish this waters the are a big part of tourist trade .sorry for the grammer

]]> Tue, 8 Mar 2016 02:29:10 UTC 19798265 Mr Keith Flanagan [Signature #925] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19773814?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Feb 2016 01:58:15 UTC 19773814 Mr Tom Dowling [Signature #924] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19657144?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:37:30 UTC 19657144 Mr Darragh Dooley [Signature #923] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19604271?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:40:09 UTC 19604271 Mr Garrett Carey [Signature #922] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19587230?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:37:21 UTC 19587230 mr andy scholes [Signature #921] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19546471?utm_medium=rss canals and waterways are a great resoucres when managed for nature not tidiness sake.

]]> Tue, 8 Dec 2015 04:12:55 UTC 19546471 Mr Dominic Smet [Signature #920] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19457848?utm_medium=rss Let Those precious fish go ! Stop killing the natures best !

]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:00:01 UTC 19457848 Mr Patrick Blake [Signature #919] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19415384?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:04:50 UTC 19415384 Mr Tiarnan Van Der Brun [Signature #918] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406808?utm_medium=rss We need better policies to protect our fisheries, fisheries ranked very high in Europe and the world. I am a qualified aquatic biologist and would welcome the chance to work for the IFI given the opportunity.

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:30:52 UTC 19406808 Mr Roman Pinciuk [Signature #917] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19397032?utm_medium=rss Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:58:53 UTC 19397032 mr Mariusz Zaremba [Signature #916] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19395979?utm_medium=rss Most of predatory fish should to be prohibited to taken away especially Brown Trout, Salmon and Pike.
Prevention and education is necessary on this stage also penalty fine should to be high enough to stop suspicious activities hovever nothing can stop rubery behaviors until people understand how bad is this for our envirement.

]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2015 04:55:44 UTC 19395979 Mr Gary O shea [Signature #915] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19375628?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Oct 2015 04:23:27 UTC 19375628 Mr Brendan Griffith [Signature #914] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19315563?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2015 07:18:46 UTC 19315563 mr Anonymous [Signature #913] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19309264?utm_medium=rss just to help

]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2015 01:19:34 UTC 19309264 Mr Graeme Joyce [Signature #912] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19253267?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Sep 2015 07:39:55 UTC 19253267 Mr Mate Solymos [Signature #911] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19246530?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:29:20 UTC 19246530 Mr Kyle McCallion [Signature #910] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19191035?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:36:01 UTC 19191035 Mrs Eleanor Thompson [Signature #909] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19172767?utm_medium=rss Is this government at all concerned with natural resources? Surely there are avenues for employment in these areas as well?

There are also problems with Loughs & speedboats, litter and zebra muscles. Would signs in different languages help?

]]> Thu, 6 Aug 2015 11:32:13 UTC 19172767 Mr Joey Minnock [Signature #908] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19132011?utm_medium=rss Waterways Ireland are destroying the potential of coarse fishing in the canals, fish spawning times are ignored by waterways Ireland when the cut weeds in the canals destroying the potential of angling in the canals. Coarse fish need to be protected the same way Trout and Salmon are

]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:22:07 UTC 19132011 Mr Matthew Priestnall [Signature #907] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19083218?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:24:38 UTC 19083218 Mr Finbar FitzPatrick [Signature #906] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19078132?utm_medium=rss I was dismayed to see that Ireland is allowing similar blunders to the ones made by the UK's Environment Agency to occur. Everyone understands that waterways need to be maintained but there can be no reason why these works cannot be carried out in a way that causes less damage and destruction to their ecology. A bit of forethought and data gathering allowing timely application of weed cutting and removal will go a long way to negate the impact of necessary channel clearance on fish, birds, and insect life as well as the people who appreciate such things. Ireland is rightfully famed for its wild, rich, and abundant fisheries, the fact that such negligent practices are allowed to occur is a terrible shame.

]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:44:00 UTC 19078132 Mr Richard Szuban [Signature #905] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19029033?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Jul 2015 08:35:51 UTC 19029033 Mr Carl Murray [Signature #904] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19003667?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:19:27 UTC 19003667 Mr Justin Holtom [Signature #903] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18981892?utm_medium=rss Maybe a good idea would be for all inland fishing, coarse fishing and river fishing requires a fishing license for a small fee of €10 for 3 months.

Just a thought!

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:17:11 UTC 18981892 Mr Darragh Connolly [Signature #902] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18972391?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:03:19 UTC 18972391 mr richard warde [Signature #901] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18955799?utm_medium=rss Our canals are barren with fish nothing but poachers lines and nets strung across the canal somthing needs to be done

]]> Sun, 7 Jun 2015 04:05:01 UTC 18955799 master barry sullivan [Signature #900] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18954345?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:36:22 UTC 18954345 Dr Eamon Hughes [Signature #899] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18944148?utm_medium=rss I am originally from Clondalkin. I have seen our local population of Pike hit hard by poaching over the years, but also the lakes around the Cavan area. Fishing is an integral part of youth development in suburban area and if people have to travel to the west coast or west midlands just to catch a pike, fewer children will take up the hobby that has thought me so much. We need to control our waters, all of them.

]]> Tue, 2 Jun 2015 08:29:14 UTC 18944148 Ms Anonymous [Signature #898] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18905210?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 May 2015 10:40:27 UTC 18905210 Mr Ding Ding Shi [Signature #897] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18900351?utm_medium=rss Protection is a must given today's situation is bad enough, fishery is so low, and uncontrolled fishing is consuming the Irish water eco-system.

]]> Thu, 21 May 2015 12:44:33 UTC 18900351 mr derek courtney [Signature #896] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18889228?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 May 2015 04:52:17 UTC 18889228 Herr Kianoush Abutalebi [Signature #895] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18885670?utm_medium=rss Sat, 16 May 2015 04:44:24 UTC 18885670 mr rodney malcolmson [Signature #894] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18867480?utm_medium=rss it should be law that all coarse fish be returned to the water alive

]]> Sun, 10 May 2015 10:28:23 UTC 18867480 Mr Kevin Fanning [Signature #893] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18859142?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 May 2015 08:24:36 UTC 18859142 Mr Marcin Kotwicki [Signature #892] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18851686?utm_medium=rss Tue, 5 May 2015 01:15:34 UTC 18851686 Mr Ryan Owen [Signature #891] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18827787?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:58:38 UTC 18827787 MR Tim Collyer [Signature #890] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18770473?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:54:56 UTC 18770473 mr James Norton [Signature #889] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18675775?utm_medium=rss pike are native to this country. stop the killings

]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 05:33:33 UTC 18675775 Mr David mcgee [Signature #888] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18653937?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:44:09 UTC 18653937 Mr Dion Scholte [Signature #887] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18652894?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:18:49 UTC 18652894 Mr Andy Elliott [Signature #886] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18650990?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:10:58 UTC 18650990 mr and rew [Signature #885] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18650428?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:51:44 UTC 18650428 Mr Richard ryan [Signature #884] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649876?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 03:08:47 UTC 18649876 Mr Cecil Kelly [Signature #883] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649796?utm_medium=rss We need things to change before the fishing in Ireland as a whole collapses. When the course fish dissappear the poachers will turn to trout and salmon.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:21:34 UTC 18649796 Mr Kevin Murphy [Signature #882] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649780?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:09:40 UTC 18649780 mr paul Breheny [Signature #881] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649661?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:11:20 UTC 18649661 mr piotr kaczmarek [Signature #880] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649655?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:08:07 UTC 18649655 Mr Alan Marrable [Signature #879] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649649?utm_medium=rss We need to control poaching and unnecessary killing of coarse fish or we will not have any to entice the visiting anglers here.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:04:52 UTC 18649649 mr andrew Burnett [Signature #878] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18649632?utm_medium=rss its long past due that coarse fishing had proper representation in ireland, and not just trout and salmon this has gone on for far too long and has now almost become a habit to ignore the coarse fishing fraternity and put all resources into trout and salmon, why this happens no one really understands as over the years coarse angling and sea angling alike have brought in as much revenue to the economy if not more than trout and salmon fishing, it really does appear to the public that in this day and age the problems that persist are being totally ignored and it has become more of a body known for creating 'jobs for the boys' rather than performing the tasks which it was originally meant for.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:55:22 UTC 18649632 Mr Mark McGuire [Signature #877] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648829?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:53:51 UTC 18648829 mr Michael McCabe [Signature #876] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648816?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:49:09 UTC 18648816 Mr Philip Clarke [Signature #875] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648797?utm_medium=rss Protect your asset or we angling tourists go elsewhere, it's cheaper to go to mainland Europe where we are welcomed and they protect there asset, coarse angling has the largest following never forget that.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:38:25 UTC 18648797 Mr Peter Thornton [Signature #874] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648693?utm_medium=rss It is disgraceful that the poaching and destruction of our fantastic fishing is going unpoliced and unchecked. Even my local waters are overrun and I am reluctant to visit them to avoid inevitable conflict with the perpetrators. I fish in France each year for a holiday to fish the public waters and the Garde de Peche would not tolerate this illegality.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:26:34 UTC 18648693 mr PETER JONES [Signature #873] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648652?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:00:31 UTC 18648652 mr Declan Govern [Signature #872] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648628?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:45:19 UTC 18648628 mr michael Conway [Signature #871] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648606?utm_medium=rss Change is needed the current set up is not protecting all our nature fish stocks. This is really starting to effect what tourist attractions we have left.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:17:28 UTC 18648606 Mr robert cowan [Signature #870] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648569?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Mar 2015 03:52:49 UTC 18648569 mr Adam Caulfield [Signature #869] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648458?utm_medium=rss I come over to fish for pike and like others put money into Irish tourism and economy so do many others

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:10:42 UTC 18648458 MR Kevin Johnson [Signature #868] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648355?utm_medium=rss As a regular angling tourist I feel that unless something is done about fish poaching in Ireland, particularly by e.u. Migrants, my contribution to the irish economy will soon be a thing of the past.

]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:13:45 UTC 18648355 mr peter taylor [Signature #867] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18648207?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:16:41 UTC 18648207 Mr Myles Howell [Signature #866] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18647897?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:29:45 UTC 18647897 Mr Mike Quirke [Signature #865] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18647841?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:07:06 UTC 18647841 Mr Lukasz Cizla [Signature #864] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18647637?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:41:36 UTC 18647637 Mr Darren Molloy [Signature #863] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18647522?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:00:21 UTC 18647522 Mr Niklas Price [Signature #862] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18647503?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:54:36 UTC 18647503 mr mark jerome [Signature #861] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18647475?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:46:04 UTC 18647475