MrBlueSkye wrote:

:: It's a damn cheek charging so much! The rivers are ours, we are Englich
:: citizens and they are English rivers so why in the name of god should we
:: pay nearly £25 quid to fish them.

Yes the rivers are ours, but the way they were after many decades of neglect
left them polluted, stinking open sewers! - the fact that you are thinking
of fishing the Mersey at all is testament to the work put in by the
Environment Agency, parially paid for by funding from fishing licences, the
7p per day you contribute goes towards improving water quality, breeding and
releasing millions of freshwater fish, prosecuting buisnesses that pollute
waterways and giving grants to people to enable them to clean up riverbanks
etc, this is where the £25 goes - the rivers have never been cleaner or
contained more fish at any time in the past 150 years, plus, you don't only
get to fish the Mersey, try the lake district for trout, or any one of the
thousands of canals and commercial fisheries for coarse fish.

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