Graham Marsden
Editor Emeritus
This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: If you want to share your Swim with a canoeist…
And canoeists want what anglers want: clean, flowing water, diverse wildlife (including otters), and nice countryside.
as a canoeist Im willing to pay my way ......no one has never asked me to yet
Peter, that's a different issue. How to fund something (or share the cost of the amenity) is a very different matter from the principle of whether it should be permitted. A canoeing license would be about as enforceable as a rod license and is a potential means.
"Effectively, any Richard Head could turn up on your piece of river for nowt, and **** about in your swim till their hearts content. And YOU THE ANGLER, landowner would have no redress in law!"
That is already the case now and has always been. On a river, the land-owner owns the land, not the water. If any boat user is not anchored nor moored, then the land owner has no rights.
Peter, would your syndicate REALLY pull out if a few canoeists appeared? Especially if there was nowhere better to go to (because canoeists would be there too)?
And do you really think the number of canoeists would mushroom overnight, flooding our waterways?!