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I was told ( by and insider in the EA) the reason why the EA encouraged farmers to allow contractors to remove bank side trees on the river Severn (I presume elsewhere also) was to stop the build up of flotsam and jetsam of wipes, sanitary towels and other shit items catching in the branches...
What utter nonsense to suggest that otters have had no effect on barbel populations on the rivers that otters share with the barbel.
Terry, its hopeless mate trying to debate with certain people, in some cases people that dont even fish for barbel.
Without fences, carp waters would be stripped...
The thing is Joe, its irrelevant what i believe to be honest, i stick to the facts, and the fact is otters have made significant negative impacts on all the barbel populations on the rivers they share with barbel, I can't take every problem on, but what I do know is that even if we did have the...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/18/otters-return-british-rivers
According to the EA and the Guardian the reason for the otters return to our rivers on a national scale, is because the rivers are so clean, the cleanest in 20 years...
My suggestion that you have to disengage with some individuals Terry, they are just antagonistic, you say black they say white, they dont know how to discuss, one protagonist even suggested that the only reason I was against otters is because of my own selfish needs as I am only interested in...
the point of the video was not necessarily the amount of otters, though I think, on the basis of what I was told, there were 3 otters involved, but how they showed no fear to the gaggle of photographers on the bank...
As I said, the EA use the otter and its spread, as a KPI to endorse their belief in their own propaganda that rivers are of a good standard and improvement, but ironically we are then lead to believe that the reason for the decline in barbel populations is due the decline of the barbels...
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