I may be putting my head on the block but.........
If a water course has become infected, causing the deaths of fish, is there any way those fish ?strains? can be traced to other waters where they may have come from in the first place? i.e transferred illegally.
Would you think that all waters connected to the main watercourse should be closed down until a thorough investigation has taken place?
Do you think that some fishery owners would keep quite, so they would not lose income/members? Bearing in mind that the E.A. can not force a water to close but only advise.
Would the next step up be DEFRA? Because somebody needs to take control, if the E.A can?t.
If there was a silence in the angling press on fish deaths, would you begin to wonder why? Or do they have to be invited to do some kind of a search on to what is happening? I would have thought not.
Any ideas/views on the above questions would be appreciated.
If a water course has become infected, causing the deaths of fish, is there any way those fish ?strains? can be traced to other waters where they may have come from in the first place? i.e transferred illegally.
Would you think that all waters connected to the main watercourse should be closed down until a thorough investigation has taken place?
Do you think that some fishery owners would keep quite, so they would not lose income/members? Bearing in mind that the E.A. can not force a water to close but only advise.
Would the next step up be DEFRA? Because somebody needs to take control, if the E.A can?t.
If there was a silence in the angling press on fish deaths, would you begin to wonder why? Or do they have to be invited to do some kind of a search on to what is happening? I would have thought not.
Any ideas/views on the above questions would be appreciated.