thecrow
Well-known member
So if your fishery has no fence you are powerless.
Sounds all wrong to me.
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So if your fishery has no fence you are powerless.
Sounds all wrong to me.
So if your fishery has no fence you are powerless.
Sounds all wrong to me.
but there is NOT anywhere near the numbers of fish present to sustain them - naturally.
Humans are past masters in messing things up when they try dabbling in the recolonisation of species. They always think they know best instead of letting nature get on with it in its own way naturally.
The country has changed quite a bit since otters inhabited most of our rivers and now some of our rivers run through towns and villages and under motorways and other built up areas some of which were not there before so the otters can't always spread out along a river as easily as they did before, so they often get limited to isolated pockets of countryside and rivers, so what do they do in these situations? they certainly will still continue to breed.
I'm not against otters, but I'm certainly against us humans trying to interfere with the ways we try to speed things up by re-introducing them.
If we turned our attention to repairing the damage we do to the environment then nature has a way of resetting the balance of species that will inhabit it.
Keith
3 years ago there was 2 otters on a mile and a half of my local river.
Now there is 8, one adult eats 3lb of fish per day and considering they sometime only eat the head that's one hell off a lot of fish open to otter predation.
Unfortunately large fish have almost disappeared from this water being older and slow moving I think it would leave them very venerable to attack. The ones your lucky to find often carry bite and claw marks to verify the problem.
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By the way, man has been on the moon lol.
That really is bullshine, no way is there 8 otters on a mile and a half of river, they're highly territorial and tolerate no other otters in their patch.
Even if there was 8 otters (which there isn't) and they ate as much food as you say they do and have caused this section of river to have low numbers of fish why the hell would the otters stay there and struggle to catch a fish (they wouldn't) they'd just move up or down river where there was a better supply of fish and other food.
By the way, man has been on the moon lol.
Anyway before world war three breaks out that's me finished on this one.
Yes we have been trying to tell you we are not directly effected.It looks to me some of you are disregarding negative remarks because you are not directly effected by this problem which is a shame.
If ww3 broke out and there was a food shortage would it be ok to eat otters
Yes we have been trying to tell you we are not directly effected.
Maybe all the other otters in the country are veggies and its just yours that eat fish.
Or maybe the river with no name has many problems and your barking up the wrong tree.
39 barbel ‘doubles’! — Angling Times
River Wye barbel record smashed — Angling Times
Big bream weights at ‘natural’ matches — Angling Times
It was just the river stories from one angling mag this week. I can dig deeper and come up with a happy smiling angler from most corners of the UK if you like.Sorry but those 3 links you posted only goes to show that the problem with otters may not be affecting all rivers equally
The first is from the Trent and is from a madhouse place where I doubt any otters would dare show their faces its that populated and noisy.
The second from another big river that has always had an indigenous otter population that would not put up with new blood otters moving into their territory. because of having that original population both the river and the otters are able to coexist
The third only shows a reasonable net of bream, hardly showing that otters are not a problem just that even otters will turn their noses up at bream.
I believe that anglers views on otters vary according to where they fish and whether the rivers they fish have always had an indigenous population because on those rivers very little has changed but on others.................
It was just the river stories from one angling mag this week. I can dig deeper and come up with a happy smiling angler from most corners of the UK if you like.
was just the river stories from one angling mag this week. I can dig deeper and come up with a happy smiling angler from most corners of the UK if you like.
And I could give you a list of rivers that used to have matches held on them and no longer do so, it would mean nothing as would your cherry picking from a magazine, by the way your 3rd link was from a Stillwater. time for you to go back on the ignore list, bye now.