Awards Presentation
The annual presentation of awards to anglers whose claims were accepted during 2009 will be held in
Red Cow Morans Hotel
Naas Road, Dublin 22
at 2.30pm
on Saturday 20th February 2010.
All Irish based anglers who are due awards are invited to attend. It is hoped to present specimen awards to UK anglers in the UK later in 2010 and also to Dutch and Belgian anglers at VISMA 2010.
Freshwater eel
Freshwater eel has been suspended from ISFC list of eligible species until 2012 to comply with a new bye-law on eel conservation.
Find out more here.
Genetic fingerprinting of Shad and Smoothhound 2009
Shad and smooth-hounds will be identified by genetic fingerprinting from 2009 onwards. Find out more here.
Genetic fingerprinting of Coarse Fish in 2009
Genetic fingerprinting will be the standard approach to identification of roach, rudd and their hybrids from 2009.Roach/rudd hybrids have been added to the list of eligible species.
Find out more here.
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2009 Annual Report
The ISFC Annual Report Irish Specimen Fish 2009 was published late in December 2009. You can download a copy from this website. Find out more here.
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Other news
Black bream have also been added to the listings. The specimen weight for rudd, rudd/bream, dace, anglerfish, black sole, brill, dab and garfish have been reduced. A further review of the remaining species on the listing will be carried out in 2010 and 2011. Progress has been made on the use of length as a proxy for weight for some shark and ray species. ISFC will continue working on this area in 2010.
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