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ea & the 'severn seal'

Neil Partridge

Neil Partridge

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calling all EA officials,
what are your thoughts on the severn seal situation around bewdley & have you heard of aything to be done about it, if at all anything can be. (catching trapping etc.)
this is not a thread though to continue the talk from other pages on here about sightings, how many & what fish they are munching on etc.
 
Neil Partridge said:
calling all EA officials,
what are your thoughts on the severn seal situation around bewdley & have you heard of aything to be done about it, if at all anything can be. (catching trapping etc.)
this is not a thread though to continue the talk from other pages on here about sightings, how many & what fish they are munching on etc.
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Leave it out, can you imagine what the public would think if we tried to skew nature to protect wild fish for our sport?

Besides any Barbel that have been eaten will be replaced, probably too many Barbel in the stretch to be good for the River, actually there are probably too many Barbel in all our Rivers, just natures way of dealing with it.
 
Neil Smart said:
Leave it out, can you imagine what the public would think if we tried to skew nature to protect wild fish for our sport?

Besides any Barbel that have been eaten will be replaced, probably too many Barbel in the stretch to be good for the River, actually there are probably too many Barbel in all our Rivers, just natures way of dealing with it.
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Do you think 'nature' sent them an invite, with the post code to guide them Neil :D Only kidding mate. I think it's much more likely that the seals are there because we have overfished our coastal waters, leaving them with little to eat, rather than our rivers having too many barbel :p

Cheers, Dave.
 
May as well get use to the idea,seal colonies will start springing up on river systems inland as they find a viable food source.This has already happened on my local river.However they tend not to munch Perch for obvious reasons and coarse fish no doubt are a poor alternative to their oily cousins.One things for sure apart from anglers no one cares except for families popping down to photograph and feed them which is to be encouraged as they may leave the Barbel alone.E.A views on said subject?Haha.
 
In my considered opinion if the authorities are not prepared to repatriate these animals back to the sea then they should be dealt with with a dose of high velocity lead behind the ear. While it is not the most pc of solutions I believe it would be the quickest and most humane for all concerned, rather that than them slowly loosing condition and dying a long lingering death in an alien environment.
 
David Gauntlett said:
Do you think 'nature' sent them an invite, with the post code to guide them Neil :D Only kidding mate. I think it's much more likely that the seals are there because we have overfished our coastal waters, leaving them with little to eat, rather than our rivers having too many barbel :p

Cheers, Dave.
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Yes you may have a point Dave, John Wilson has been banging on about the raping of the seas for ages and Hugh Miles has lost some Koi.

But on a serious note a pod of Killer Whales was seen by the Severn Bridge Monday, that will sort Sammy out, and give Bewdley a much needed lift if they ever get that far.... see, every cloud :)
 
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Killer Whales in the Severn now!? What next Godzilla!? Think we can kiss goodbye to the fishing then.

Mind you I think he prefers buildings.
 
We get them on the Tidal trent all the time, I even saw a porpoise one day.
 
I don't doubt it Jon, and I'm sure the Severn estuary if full of them, but these are 100 miles from the sea in a place they should never be. Check on your map where Stourport is, you can't get much further from the sea in this country.
I stand by my last comment, it's time they were moved on, one way or another.
 
Adrian Williams said:
I don't doubt it Jon, and I'm sure the Severn estuary if full of them, but these are 100 miles from the sea in a place they should never be. Check on your map where Stourport is, you can't get much further from the sea in this country.
I stand by my last comment, it's time they were moved on, one way or another.
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Tbh Adrian I am with you on this and relocation is the answer imo. Good luck and I sincerely hope the issue is resolved some way or another.
 
Well i hear the seal is a bit of a local celebrity in Bewdley at the moment and local school children are calling him Sammy.
 
Adrian Williams said:
I don't doubt it Jon, and I'm sure the Severn estuary if full of them, but these are 100 miles from the sea in a place they should never be. Check on your map where Stourport is, you can't get much further from the sea in this country.
I stand by my last comment, it's time they were moved on, one way or another.
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I agree. The problem is that there is an over-population of them. This is an issue in many countries and especially Canada. If there were a lack of sea food this should automatically regulate numbers. To sustain ever increasing numbers would infer listening to the wise words of the cormorants and move inland for easy pickings.
 
Would be good if they had babies, then we could go and club them to death, just like the god old days!! ;)
 
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