Natural Resources Wales

[Paul Bullinger]

I guess like many of you on this forum you are also members of Angling Trust? After receiving their recent magazine "The Angler" I was intrigued to read the article about the Wye, where, in a nutshell, Natural Resources Wales have stated there's nothing wrong with the river!!
A bit odd, I thought, bearing in mind us anglers know there's sewage and chicken poo and nitrates/phosphates killing the river.
So, I went onto the NRW website and amongst all the jargon found this:
Features (including flora & fauna) where NRW has responsibility, 20% are favourable, 30% in unfavourable condition, 50% are not in a desired state.
So, an organisation that is responsible for, basically, the environment is stating publicly that 80% is crap (excuse my French)
If in my working life I told my boss I am only delivering 20% of the time, I would've been kicked out!
What a joke and the poor River Wye having NRW to rely on?!

 

[Tom Casey]

NRW , Not Really Working .

 

[Neil Blood]

NRW are both underfunded and useless IMHO. If memory serves (someone please correct me if I’m wrong), for the most recent challenge by Fish Legal, in respect to chicken farming and Wye water quality, NRW replied using data from 2015 and 2009 (?), which just shows how poor they are at monitoring such things on a regular basis

In my own personal dealings with them, I tried a number of times and over several years, to get them to do something about Giant Hogweed on the Upper Severn. My reasoning being that it couldn’t be in a worse place and will rapidly spread down the whole river. Each time I pushed them on it, the standard reply came that the Welsh Assembly hadn’t made it a priority

With the next round of inevitable austerity cuts, funding for such things is only going to get worse unfortunately!

 

[Paul Bullinger]

NRW are both underfunded and useless IMHO. If memory serves (someone please correct me if I’m wrong), for the most recent challenge by Fish Legal, in respect to chicken farming and Wye water quality, NRW replied using data from 2015 and 2009 (?), which just shows how poor they are at monitoring such things on a regular basis

In my own personal dealings with them, I tried a number of times and over several years, to get them to do something about Giant Hogweed on the Upper Severn. My reasoning being that it couldn’t be in a worse place and will rapidly spread down the whole river. Each time I pushed them on it, the standard reply came that the Welsh Assembly hadn’t made it a priority

With the next round of inevitable austerity cuts, funding for such things is only going to get worse unfortunately!

What I have never understood about government (local & national) funding matters, is that a small amount spent now normally results in less money having to be spent in the future. False economy.