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Wed 11 Nov 2006Cabinet pressed to ban salmon drift-net fishing The Cabinet will today be urged to back plans supported by the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, to ban all drift-net fishing for salmon from next year.Mr Dempsey has not heeded calls to abandon the plan, and will not propose that the State increase the €30 million compensation on offer to 800 drift-net fishermen.