BRAD WROTE: Ari, tell us about Finland. You must have lots of fish there, or it wouldn't be called Finland. - Well, sorry Brad, I am not very familiar with the fishing scene: tried quite a lot, though. I have had rod and reel with me during some weekends last summer - but no luck. The waters are basically unpolluted, even near Helsinki: you can see people trying to get fish from the shores at the center... Salmon, pike, perch, burbot and Baltic herring are the most common species. In the lakes it is possible to find some real monsters of pike. I have heard that it is really nice to go to Lapland and try fishing there, even if there are some danger of sicknesses of the salmon to get here from the Norway. The salmon farming again...I am very strongly opposed against it. Tthe negotations between the Finns and Norwegians have not been very successfu,l I believe, bacause of the pressure of the industry from the Norwegian side. Mostly fishing is considered to be one of the common rights, so all you have to do is to buy a licence from the nearest post-office. In Lapland the regulations are little bit tighter: I think one is supposed to have cleaned (?) fishing equipment and the licences are only for a week or something like that. Anyhow, the new laws passed 1997 left me enbarrassed, because there are still some private waters, owned by local fishing communes, to whom you are supposed to buy a private licence. So I decided to become outlaw and quit buying any licences at all ;-) Havenīt been caught yet. That might mean losing all my equipment. Yourīs Ari Saarto "Think about your hips - a good sea kayaker is also a worthy partner in samba..." Kannaksenkatu 22 / P.O. 92 15141 Lahti - Finland - Europe GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892 fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815 e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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