Paul Mallinson 2
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Here's the problem,
I stand to lose some fishing in the near future. The reason for this is that the owner of the lake has retired and sold the lake off to the North Lincs Wildlife Trust who operate the neighbouring Far Ings nature reserve.
I have only been fishing the venue for about 6 months. I desperately want to keep the fishing going there. Under the arrangement made for the sale of the lake, 5 people will be allowed to fish the lake for the next 5 years. Also I have heard that members of the family which owned the lake will be allowed to fish it.
I would like to present the idea to the North Lincs Wildlife Trust to develop the lake as a syndicated private fishery. I have though up quite a few arguments which I could use as to why fishing should be allowed in a controlled manner.
1. If a syndicate was set up then a set amount, say 20 fishermen would have to pay to join each year, this could provide an income of upwards of ?1000 per yer to the Trust
(The Lincs Wildlife Trust Development Plan Review, Part 4, Nature reserve Acuisitions and Management Priorities. Sub section 4 is below.
4)Funding/income/capital items
The Reserves Dept accounts for the largest part of the Trust?s expenditure but the annual demands for management costs can only be partially met. There is still much work to do to bring all reserves to the highest standard. This is more important than ever due to commitments made to RES and agri-environment schemes. Are the following proposed action points appropriate:
a)Establish investment into a long-term 'replacement fund', to ensure the nature reserve infrastructure, particularly the huge investment in fencing and access, can be maintained to a good standard (last 10 years > ?500,000 spent).
b)Ensure a rolling programme of capital equipment renewal for reserve management can be achieved (current book value c. ?250,000).
c)Explore sources of funding and keep abreast of changes to existing funding processes, e.g. agri-environment, aggregates, landfill, etc.
d)Re-examine cost balance of income from reserves, e.g. woodland products, meat/livestock.
e)Explore means of identifying grants and other funding bodies.)
The part that interests me is sub section d. Surley a fishery is an ideal income from the Trusts Reserves at no cost to the trust.
I stand to lose some fishing in the near future. The reason for this is that the owner of the lake has retired and sold the lake off to the North Lincs Wildlife Trust who operate the neighbouring Far Ings nature reserve.
I have only been fishing the venue for about 6 months. I desperately want to keep the fishing going there. Under the arrangement made for the sale of the lake, 5 people will be allowed to fish the lake for the next 5 years. Also I have heard that members of the family which owned the lake will be allowed to fish it.
I would like to present the idea to the North Lincs Wildlife Trust to develop the lake as a syndicated private fishery. I have though up quite a few arguments which I could use as to why fishing should be allowed in a controlled manner.
1. If a syndicate was set up then a set amount, say 20 fishermen would have to pay to join each year, this could provide an income of upwards of ?1000 per yer to the Trust
(The Lincs Wildlife Trust Development Plan Review, Part 4, Nature reserve Acuisitions and Management Priorities. Sub section 4 is below.
4)Funding/income/capital items
The Reserves Dept accounts for the largest part of the Trust?s expenditure but the annual demands for management costs can only be partially met. There is still much work to do to bring all reserves to the highest standard. This is more important than ever due to commitments made to RES and agri-environment schemes. Are the following proposed action points appropriate:
a)Establish investment into a long-term 'replacement fund', to ensure the nature reserve infrastructure, particularly the huge investment in fencing and access, can be maintained to a good standard (last 10 years > ?500,000 spent).
b)Ensure a rolling programme of capital equipment renewal for reserve management can be achieved (current book value c. ?250,000).
c)Explore sources of funding and keep abreast of changes to existing funding processes, e.g. agri-environment, aggregates, landfill, etc.
d)Re-examine cost balance of income from reserves, e.g. woodland products, meat/livestock.
e)Explore means of identifying grants and other funding bodies.)
The part that interests me is sub section d. Surley a fishery is an ideal income from the Trusts Reserves at no cost to the trust.