With grateful thanks for all your help and support over the past year and in the hope that we can continue to make progress in our aim to protect our fisheries.
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The 2010 River Conwy season extension is now complete, to view a summary of the results visit the catch returns page: River Conwy Catch Returns Summary If you forgot to submit your return, please contact me ASAP at: Thanks, Alec This document sets out the alternatives available for changes to our fishery bye laws, including changes to the length of the season and methods that may be allowed. Your comments will be welcome on the forum The 2010 River Clwyd season extension is now complete, to view a summary of the results visit the catch returns page: River Clwyd Catch Returns Summary If you forgot to submit your return, please contact me ASAP at: Thanks, Alec
They provide a summary overview of the estimated fish stocks for each catchment in North Wales. The documents provide an important insight in terms of how the Environment Agency assess, make decisions and plan for the future of our fisheries. The data in these documents is 2009 based, but the documents themselves, are hot off the press. The 2010 data will be published here around April/May time. As always we welcome your comments, and if you would like us to convey any thoughts/questions to the EA please let us know. Please email: admin@cpwf.co.uk Thanks, Alec 2009 – Artro Summary Here at the campaign team, we are delighted to announce we have established a partnership with the Environment Agency to run the Angling Season Extension Trials for the Rivers Clwyd, Conwy and Seiont. Building upon the success of the online trial with the River Clwyd last year, the same system and practices will now be extended to the Conwy and Seiont respectively. We can confirm that this is the only method available to register for any future season extension trial, postal applications will no longer be accepted. Should an angler wish to participate in a trial but does not have internet access, a nominated member of his/her angling association/club or syndicate should sumbit an application and asscociated catch returns on his/her behalf. Apologies for any inconvenience. Reminder to all registered River Clwyd participants: Catch Returns MUST be submitted by: 15th November (Failure to complete your catch return will result in exclusion from any future season extension) The Angling Times are, once again, publicising the ever increasing hacking away of enforcement staff. This is what the Campaign is all about and we thank the Angling Times for adding the fuel of publicity what is going on. When will the politicians realise the damage that illegal fisheries activity is doing to our fisheries and thereby to massive revenues angling generates for the economy. Thank you ANGLING TIMES
The following details the Welsh Assembly Governments response to the Inland Waterways Access Enquiry. Your comments will be welcomed.
Thank you very much for your two messages. They raise nicely a concern that I know troubles many anglers who are concerned about stocks, but see the value in understanding more about how sea trout populations work so that they can be protected better in the future. It is a dilemma. I take a pragmatic line on this, recognising that we are dealing with volunteers and very grateful for the angler support. We wouldn’t want anyone to kill fish that they don’t want to and I do agree that trying to take scales off fish under difficult conditions of for example an awkward bank and warm water will increase their risk of dying. I agree that actually killing the fish may be the best option under those or similar circumstances, or if the angler is not confident about taking scales from live fish anyway. I kill sea trout – the very few that I catch (!) on the basis of the arguments below. As you have clearly pointed out, the numbers of fish killed is in most cases small in relation to the runs and is not in reality a risk to stocks, providing it is short term (e.g. the lifetime of the project). The sacrifice is worth it to gain the knowledge; but that needs to be conveyed more effectively to anglers, some of whom think it is just a bunch of mad boffins indulging themselves. I can assure you that is not the case for the CSTP. Many of the scientists are anglers and are only too aware of the conservation issues. The alternative is to consider what might happen in the future if we don’t try to do what the CSTP is attempting. We may get declines in sea trout (as we have seen in salmon) and then a situation arises where, because stocks are seriously depleted, killing fish would actually pose a genuine severe risk. We would then be left with little knowledge, few fish and no room for manoeuvre – not a happy situation. At the moment we are in an interim stage with reasonably stable stocks in most cases (this year has actually been quite productive); so now is really the time to do this, not when we are up against problems in the future. Anyway, that’s how I rationalise it. I’d be happy to convey this through your site and or the sea trout forum (I’ve registered on this and plan to comment on it). Regards Nigel The CSTP sampling (www.celticseatrout.com) is now in full swing and will continue for a further two years. Fish samples are coming in from many sources; but an important part of the project requires sea trout scales and basic measurements to be collected from selected rivers. This is being done by angler volunteers because angling is the best methods for doing this part of the sampling programme. In Wales the selected rivers are the Clwyd, Conwy, Dwyfawr, Dyfi, Teifi, Tywi and Tawe. We are at the end or close to the end of the fishing season, depending on the rivers. BUT where it is still appropriate, this is a call for last minute effort to catch and sample the sea trout. Please help, it will benefit sea trout in the long run. Any queries please contact: Carys Davies, carys.davies@bangor.ac.uk, tel: 01248388603, mob: 07717547823 Nigel Milner, n.milner@apemltd.co.uk, mob: 07712038674 Graeme Harris, fishskill@btinternet.com, tel: 0187473117 AND THANK YOU.” The following details the proposed changes and is a must read for all game anglers. Your feedback is essential!
Inquiry into Access to Inland Water in WalesIt is worth noting that enquiries are already being made of clubs as to which of their waters are leased from public bodies like the Forestry Commission. When you read the report you will understand why. Inquiry into Access to Inland Water in Wales Welsh VersionThe following email was delivered to my computer today. It never ceases to amaze me just how much there is to learn, so it with gratitude that I received little gems like this. This paper really is worth a read and is well worth consideration in the current stocking policy and fisheries management debate. Please take a little time to read it, I promise you it will be well worth the effort. Please remember we welcome all contributions. Thank you. This important report on Sockeye salmon applies equally to our salmon and sea trout – and serves to confirm that they are best protected and maintained by preserving the river and its wild stocks in their natural state. Tampering with the river (Brianne), channel engineering, stock manipulations are all counter productive and will lead to a long term loss of resilience in the face of global warming. This was the scene on the beach at Pensarn last Saturday when a gill net was discovered adrift. This single image conveys the damage fixed coastal nets can do to our fisheries far more than any academic paper ever could. It really is time these nets, which are indiscriminate in what they entrap, were banned from our shorelines. Let us hope the Welsh Assembly Government, now it has responsibility for our coastal waters, bans these nets and considers seriously the many benefits of the Golden Mile.
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