02-23-2010, 05:29 PM
You were lucky because you weren't caught . . . It was absolutely illegal what you did. [:p]
The right to fish is not necssarily owned by those who own the property around the water. And the Rhine is a water where you have cooperatives owning the fishing rights. They and only they are allowed to permit the permission papers. Here in NRW it is chaep. I think about 30 Euros a year. But only allows you to fish in the stream. Not at harbours, at the mouth of other rivers and not where it is connected to other lakes.
Germany is the home of bureaucracy [:/]
For you as a non citizen of Germany it was easy to get the main permission.
My son had one for last year. He became 16 in August. Until you are 16 you get a junior license. It allows you to fish as long as you are acompanied by someone with a full license. The same day he became 16 he was not allowed to fish any longer. When you are 16 you need to have a full license. But you can't get a full license until you are 14 and you can't pass the test until you are 13.
Children are not allowed to fish without being accompanied by adults!
No joke!
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The right to fish is not necssarily owned by those who own the property around the water. And the Rhine is a water where you have cooperatives owning the fishing rights. They and only they are allowed to permit the permission papers. Here in NRW it is chaep. I think about 30 Euros a year. But only allows you to fish in the stream. Not at harbours, at the mouth of other rivers and not where it is connected to other lakes.
Germany is the home of bureaucracy [:/]
For you as a non citizen of Germany it was easy to get the main permission.
My son had one for last year. He became 16 in August. Until you are 16 you get a junior license. It allows you to fish as long as you are acompanied by someone with a full license. The same day he became 16 he was not allowed to fish any longer. When you are 16 you need to have a full license. But you can't get a full license until you are 14 and you can't pass the test until you are 13.
Children are not allowed to fish without being accompanied by adults!
No joke!
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