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Some of the comments from Anglers are cringeworthy to say the least.
My favourite was 'carp are at risk of becoming an endangered species'
Hope all the those threatening licence boycotts get hefty fines if they do so.
Not all no, but I ain't gunna stop buying a licence because of it.
There are some very valid comments on there, and I agree with quite a few. But there are also some comments that are cringeworthy and total nonsense.
Jon
I think you will find the criticism of the EA statement is because its utter nonsense..
The Rivers are clean , we here them say proudly , and fish life has never been better !
Well , the EU say differently , missed targets year after year after year..
You have to ask yourself , why do other European countries , who have healthy Otter populations , also have healthy fish populations...
I do honestly think far too many Otters were reintroduced , and something has gone very wrong and been poorly managed from the beginning..
The incompetence of the EA supporting reintroducing a Apex Predator in numbers to a already declining Riverine system , is staggering , given they knew the water quality was no where near EU water directive requirements.
Its hard not to blame the Otter when you see prized fish ripped to pieces, but believe me, the real Villains are the EA..
The EA no more serve Angling , than the RSPB do..
I'm no fan of the EA and they rightly should be criticised for not doing enough to improve the health of our rivers and for failing to properly implement the WFD.
But whatever your views on otters, it seems a little unfair to blame the EA for otter reintroduction, or even for supporting otter reintroduction, given that the EA was was formed in 1996 - that is 7 years after the last official/legal Otter release in 1999 by the Otter Trust.
1996 is seven years after 1999
There, that just proves it, my maths is all shot to hell. That's the trouble with getting old
Cheers, Dave.
It's not so much what the EA do or don't do regarding otters, it's how little they take any notice of anglers views when anglers fund them more than any other leisure water related activity. I was at a show in Stratford last summer where the EA stand had a huge poster of an otter, spouting similar **** to this. I got into a conversation of sorts about the damage to specimen fish caused by otters and predictably got the response that not only otters kill specimen fish. When I asked the EA "officer" what else would drag a 14lb barbel up the bank and eat it's offal the conversation was over. He didn't want to know and that is what frustrates anglers, the EA won't even accept any alternative information or views to their own blinkered opinion. Whatever rubbish this poster spouts, one thing is obvious. Coarse fishing, at least on rivers, has had it's golden era and we are now entering a period of rapid decline.