Commercial salmon catchers have urged the Government to opt for a voluntary rather than compulsory buyout of the drift-net fishery.
Groups representing the sector have also criticised the proposal by the Government's three-man review group to lift the ban on the sale of salmon caught by anglers.
"Even anglers themselves are concerned about this, because of implications for poaching," Ms Carmel Lynn, a representative of the Irish Traditional Drift-net Fishermen's Association (ITDFA), said yesterday.
The ITDFA is one of several organisations supporting a national protest in Dublin on Wednesday.
Representatives of about 1,500 commercial catchers from around the coast are expected to attend the protest march from Parnell Square to Leinster House, where a letter will be handed in to Minister of State for the Marine John Browne.
The protest will take place a day before a meeting of the National Salmon Commission (NSC) - its first since last week's publication of the independent review by Minister for Marine Noel Dempsey.
Although it is the Government's advisory body on salmon management, the NSC says it was not given a copy of the three-man group's review before its release.
Ms Lynn said the main focus of the protest would be to reinforce demands for a voluntary buyout of drift-net licences, which would allow pockets to continue where salmon stocks are in surplus and there are no serious consequences for mixed stock fisheries.
Over 800 of the 1,500 licences are for drift-nets. A voluntary buyout has been proposed for other forms of netting in the independent report.
The proposed valuation for compensation also needed to be increased for a voluntary buyout to work, Ms Lynn said.
"The report's valuation of €23 a salmon is just too low, when the average price is €35," she said. The report had ignored several other key aspects of the issue, Ms Lynn added, including the consequences for the salmon smoking industry in the country.
The Stop Now campaign, representing private fishery owners and angling groups, has urged the Government to adopt the report.
It has said it believes the €30 million compensation package to be "fair and equitable", and that the restoration of Irish salmon stocks can be a huge economic driver in rural Ireland, in reviving a "declining angling tourism sector" and providing "jobs and security for many communities throughout rural Ireland".
