Commonly, fishing and sporting rights were reserved by the Irish Land Commission when land was vested in tenant farmers from the 1890s to the 1960s. Almost all agricultural land in the State was vested by the Land Commission. In some areas there still exists land retained by landed families and estates.<\/p>\n
In some cases, fishing rights were excluded from the sale to the Land Commission and could subsist in the selling estate\u2019s successors. In the absence of such agreement, they were vested in the Land Commission, which dealt with them under regulations. In most cases, the rights were reserved to the landowners.<\/p>\n
Under the Land Commission (Dissolution) Act 1992 fishing rights and fisheries which had been vested in the Land Commission became vested in the Central Fisheries Boards and ultimately in Inland Fisheries Ireland.<\/p>\n\n
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Public Rights Under common law, the public has a right to fish in the tidal reaches of rivers and estuaries. However, the State or its predecessor, the Crown or a private fisheries holder, may have acquired the right and excluded the public right. It may be vested by statute in a body. There is no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31476,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108\/revisions\/31476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}