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Nigel Connor(ACA ,SAA)
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I hope Graham does not mind me posting a link to another site but this made me laugh.
The Coppermill Stream
The Coppermill Stream
I hope Graham does not mind me posting a link to another site but this made me laugh.
The Coppermill Stream
It also suffered greatly, as did many rivers, from cormorant predation. The first fish to go were the dace and roach followed by the smaller perch and chub. At the time the baillif told me that when he arrived in the mornings there would be up to 200 birds on the river, all diving and coming up with fish. Then the reduction of the flow finally sealed it's fate but it was thought that the bigger fish moved down river and into the Lea which accounted for the increase in catches of large carp and chub from the Tottenham and Lea Bridge Road sections. What happened to the barbel god only knows but I would suspect that they gradually died out or also moved down into the Lea.
The Coppermill was one of my favourite rivers and it's eventual decline into being no more than a fishless, canal like stretch of water makes me want to weep.