Fishing ban in Norfolk

[Norton1]

The long-running summer season conflict on the Norfolk Broads between anglers and boaters that has simmered ever since the phenomenal growth of the floating tourist industry in the 1950s appears to have come to the boil again following a ban on angling being imposed on the Postwick Wharf and Bramerton on the tidal River Yare and at Worlingham and Beccles on the River Waveney.
The spots at Bramerton and Postwick are popular with the elderly and the disabled anglers due to nearby parking and flat banks. I don't know much about the locations on the Waveney.
The Broads Authority have stated that bank anglers can only fish from 30 Oct to 31 March so this effectively is a complete ban on the Yare as unless we have very mild weather because at that time the fish will have migrated into Norwich and the boatyards.
What really gets my goat is that owners and hirers of boats are mooring there and then unloading their gear and fishing from the bank alongside their boats.
The enviroment agency are aware of this and doing nothing, just what am I paying my licence fee for, I live in an area with 120 miles of navigable river, with the amount of bankside fishing negligible especially if you are elderly or disabled and need close by parking. Now to lose more fishing bank is tragedy. Sick Angler.

[sammy-boy]

are there any petitions againist it ? i'd be glad to sign up even though it wouldn't affect me

[Norton1]

Originally Posted by sammy-boy

are there any petitions againist it ? i'd be glad to sign up even though it wouldn't affect me

It may not affect you now, remember what happened to fox hunting.?
Things have just started to happen if you would like to help complain to the Broads Authority, there is a complaint/enquiry form on their site.
Sorry I am unable to to post links at the moment as I have not posted enough.
But if you google a few things like fishing ban, norfolk, you will come up with quite a lot of detail.
many thanks.