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  But the licence does nothing to stop this 'over fishing'. The licence does not address what is right or wrong, only what is 'legal'(and I mean legal in the loosest sense). If the man in this picture holds a licence what difference would it make?
  
  It was, up until recently, 'illegal' to have any more than 2 performers in your pub under the old 'basic' PRS licence. Under the idea that licensing makes something 'right' having a four piece band would have been 'wrong'. Things have changed now and this act is now right. When we talk about things like fishing in the Dour it just shows how we have got caught up with bureaucracy rather than morality.
  
  Howard's link shows us that you don't have to pay if you are under 12. By this reasoning it is fine for every 11 year old in the country to fish the Dour, that would soon get rid of the fish! Under licensing this is 'right' yet the one bloke here is 'wrong'. If we want to teach right and wrong we also need to examine the descriptors, not just the laws.
  
  For example the laws now surrounding striking, making the act of people standing up for what is right, an 'unlawful act'. So moral code can actually eroded by legislation. We are constantly being told to make our own decisions but can we?
  
  I still think there are more fish in the Dour than when I fished there.

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