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mark williams 4
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If there was ever a blight on the angling landscape it's the 'commercial carp fishery' and, as Swordsy points out, the remorseless introduction of the water pig into every puddle and, more worryingly, every natural lake.
The EA can been complicit in this environmental vandalism, allowing stocking to be licensed, and though through no fault of its own, allowing illegal stocking elsewhere.
It's time the EA started surveying lakes properly before they allowed stocking, and being less free with the licences. You couldn't set up a zoo with 20 tigers in the same cage so the visitors all get the pleasure of seeing one, so why allow obscene stocking densities? It's an animal welfare issue, and (treading dangerously here) I wouldn't blame the RSPCA if they leapt on to this issue and started looking into what's going on.
The EA can been complicit in this environmental vandalism, allowing stocking to be licensed, and though through no fault of its own, allowing illegal stocking elsewhere.
It's time the EA started surveying lakes properly before they allowed stocking, and being less free with the licences. You couldn't set up a zoo with 20 tigers in the same cage so the visitors all get the pleasure of seeing one, so why allow obscene stocking densities? It's an animal welfare issue, and (treading dangerously here) I wouldn't blame the RSPCA if they leapt on to this issue and started looking into what's going on.