The eradication of HB is not a problem, just a challenge to all anglers, Conservation Organisations and other water users.
It often grows in very sensitive areas such as the Hampshire Avon where the Wildlife Trusts Non-Native Species Project is operating.
This river is an SAC* and an SSSI* where the use of chemicals is very limited indeed, hence the use of man (and woman) hand power.
HB usually colonises disturbed soil or silt laid down by recent floods and is very shallow rooted making pulling by hand an easy proposition (unless you have already pulled two thousand plants already).
Once pulled it dies, and doesn't regrow
Do your bit.
If you see it growing anywhere along an English waterway......pull it up and dump it as far back from the waters edge as possible.......simples!
*SAC = Special Area of Conservation, the highest European designation providing protection under EU and British Laws.
*SSSI = Site of Special Scientific Interest, a British designation providing protection under UK Law.
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