FM members may recall my post on the forums about bird flu a few weeks ago. At the time I did say I was awaiting instructions on just what we, as anglers, could do from one of the government laboratories. I had e-mailed them at a publicly advertised address. This is about 3 weeks ago now. Guess what? I still have had no reply at all. So it doesn't surprise me that it took them 8 days to actually pick up a dead and, at the time suspected bird flu case, swan.
I honestly do not think DEFRA has the situation in hand. Up in the quarantine zone in Fife it has been left to individual poulty farmers to impose there own 'off limits' zones. I would have thought that the first thing DEFRA would have done is to impose proper, legal exclusion zones around commercial fowl industries.