Not fishing to eat, just for fun? Do you need a licence or not?
There’s a park near me that has a fairly big pond on it that feeds into Tamsui river, there’s signs up saying “No Fishing” but it does nothing to dissuade people from doing it anyway. Went down today and there was a good 30 or so people fishing despite the signs. Just curious if it means no fishing unless you have a licence or no fishing full stop.
Would I be OK to just get a rod and go down there? Or do I run the risk of fines or whatever the penalty is for fishing without a permit or indeed, in an area you’re not meant to fish.
This is Taiwan. The rules are there to make the gubmint look good, but they are not enforced. Unless you have a big nose, in which case you can be deported for the same ‘crime’ that the 25 people next to you abuse daily without repercussion.
PS: what kind of sport is there in hauling fish out of a barrel? if you want a challenge, get yourself a kayak, paddle out 3 miles off Hualien, and catch marlin on a hand reel.
Be a real man.
Unless you’re a woman, in which case i’d say Be a Real Woman.
[quote=“Ibis2k12”]The:“No fishing” means that people are not allowed to fish there under any circumstances, 24/7. As others mentioned though, this is Taiwan.
Fun fact about fishing:
People fishing in the clean rivers near the mountain in southern Yilan = 0
People fishing in the turd-smelling ebola-looking stagnant waters between rice fields around Luo Dong: countless
I’ll never get it.[/quote]
Builds immunity… fella. How did great grandma get to lick the batter from the cake at a time when there was no real refrigeration and nothing happened. Now, you get one bad egg and you drop dead. There was a recent story of a woman who just had a little cookie dough when was baking cookies and she died a slow and painful death. Sterile food is killing us. Too late to go back for us westerners Just a thought
I see students’ families fishing from bridges over stinky rivers. I asked some people what they are going to do with the fish. Eat it is the reply. I ask if they would like to take a dip… eww now way they reply. Go figure.
I’m not sure there is any such thing as a fishing license. I’ve asked a lot of locals and the idea of a license to take something that is swimming in public waters is foreigner to them. Just get a head scratch…
Actually the difference is that the news is much better now and we know that someone in some random part of the US dropped dead from eating a bad egg. Many, many people died from every day preventable problems like that 100 years ago.
Let me tell you about eating cookie dough though. It’s delicious and it (the only thing I can trace it to) completely wrecked me for a week last November. never again.
Rules? Well, one rule is you must bring the trash from your house and throw into the river (or at least close to the river on the bank) where you fish. It is optional as to whether you toss the trash before or after you fish.
I suggest you avoid that creek with the “No Fishin’” sign. Some people will try to convince you that Taiwanese don’t follow the rules, but as a foreigner, you’d be the first person they’d nab for illegal fishing.
The rules here are different from back home. The following are the three biggies:
Don’t sit too close to anyone else. If, say, there are 10 people on one side of the pool and 9 on the other, you are expected to set up on the side with 9.
One beer at a time.
if someone’s catchin’ a lot of large shrimp, you aren’t allowed to move closer to their lucky spot.
Also… don’t forget… Even in the most remote and pristine fishing locations you will find vendors set up on tables selling you drinks, betel nut and other necessary items. Even extra packing material you can leave on the ground. No sign of waste baskets.
Let’s get serious for a moment. Are there any fishing licenses needed in Taiwan? In Jersey my home state, our rivers are stocked from the fisheries. The fees help cover the cost. . If you’ve been here long enoughyou will notice, people don’t like having knowledge past their pay grade. Sometime if I ask questions like these, I get an annoyed. "Do you need to know? Or is it important.?