Fish protection....

[King Rat]

The plague has started.....



I was out early with my ghillie.





The goose was a bonus.

 

[Flintlock]

My heart sinks when I see those in inland waters. Definitely need controlling.

 

[LOLGEOFF]

All these modern fisheries springing up are just as much the cause of any perceived problem with Cormorants. It's a bit like when the Local Authority allows a Macdonald's to open on the high street and then has to try to control the influx of youngsters and undesirables to the area causing associated noise and antisocial behaviour.

 

[King Rat]

All these modern fisheries springing up are just as much the cause of any perceived problem with Cormorants. It's a bit like when the Local Authority allows a Macdonald's to open on the high street and then has to try to control the influx of youngsters and undesirables to the area causing associated noise and antisocial behaviour.

Tell that to the Danes and Swedes, where they are in plague proportions and devastating the wild stocks in all their waters. Cormorants are classed as vermin because of the devastation they are causing, nothing to do with 'commercial fisheries'. The River Severn is not a 'commercial fishery', but the roach shoals have gone, not just been thinned down to very few, gone. The EA is breeding roach to reintroduce them and try to re-establish the roach stocks, but until these things are put on open, general licence, it will not work. In just the same way those who feed grey squirrels are destroying the red squirrle opulation - Formby red squirrel reserve has had greys get there and the population f reds is crashing as a result. The Formby reserve has just been given £300,000 of tax payers money to try and eradicate the grey squirrels and save the reds that have survived so far.

Arm chair CONservationists and the CONservation Industry is creating havoc and devastation in the countryside. It doesn't pay to be successful, because then they can't get their grant money and the gravy train dries up. CEO of the RSPB, who has overseen huge declines on their reserves, plus massive damage to their neighbours estates as a result of their 'no management' regime that resulted in massive fuel load on the moors building up and making the subsequent fires unmanageable with the depth and age of the heather and with no fire breaks created by young heather areas. The thick heather supports virtually no wildlife or the moorland birds that rely on the varied depth of heather - GONE from the RSPB reserves but THRIVING on managed moors. Anyway, that CEO is paid over £400,000 a year with the top ups, for bossing over that incompetence... oh and now they have the begging bowl out again to pay for the reparation of the damage they have done. Unbelievable.