I'm all for local folks utilizing the river. But fish guts, seaweed, and fishing line tangled up in the wheels of our stroller is gross! The bridge is no place for fishing. It is terribly hard to steer around all the line while kyacking. The day someone gets a fish hook in the eye is when someone will take notice.

Folk should definitely be allowed to fish BUT NOT OFF A BRIDGE WHERE IT IS ILLEGAL. Fish off the side, off the park. This is a maritime community so you want to allow for boating up and down the river - it's dangerous for any boaters (or kayakers, canoes) going underneath - you've got a wall of hooks with fishermen not watching and not reeling them in when water traffic is coming.

Also, can the fishing end from 2am to 5am at least in residential areas? Getting sick of the loud mouths in the middle of the night waking me up. Half the time they sound drunk.

I'm all for people enjoying the river and having a good time fishing, but can they be respectful about it?

Lets put on the pressure to stop fishing off the the bridge and not stop until it stops.

We have been writing the same crap on here for three years...stop the fishing from the bridge, stop the dirt bikes...but nothing ever happens! Where are the NHPD????? I see people lined up fishing all day on the bridge and hundreds of cops drive across the bridge and do nothing! Every once in awhile one will get on his loud speaker but never actually enforce anything or even come to a complete stop. NHPD has abandoned Fair Haven just like the rest of the city gov't.

The fishing starts at the beginning of the fishing season but after some enforcement it stops. Keep calling the police and it will stop by the end of June.

It stops the heat of summer because the fish stop running up stream and the warm water makes it a less desirable spot to fish from. Not because of any NHPD enforcement...Come fall they will be back...

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This issue was recategorized from Sidewalks and Curb damage to Policing Issue.

None one is fishing now.