The Board's mission statement is  "to conserve, develop, manage and promote the valuable inland fisheries and sea angling resources of the Region, in their own right and in a sustainable manner for the benefit of local communities.”  

Board Strategy Statement

The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board is the competent fisheries authority for the inland fisheries and sea angling resource of the Shannon Catchment.  It is our job to conserve the Fisheries Resource of the Region in its own right and to manage, restore, enhance and promote it in a sustainable manner for you and for future generations. We achieve this through working with the Community, Government, its agencies, and Business.  

MINISTER OF STATE SEAN LENIHAN ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF THE INLAND FISHERIES BILL 2009

18 NOVEMBER 2009

Following on from the Government’s approval of proposals for the restructuring of the inland fisheries sector this Bill sets out the statutory basis for the establishment of Inland Fisheries Ireland., This is the new national inland fisheries body which will subsume the existing Central Board and the seven Regional Fisheries Boards, as well as the governance provisions by which it will be .....