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Very rare I have a rant (well, maybe a few for entertainmnet) but a few things have come to mind lately. One is the mention of the Royal Military canal in Kent. In the winter they drain it to about 2ft of water, 6 inches in some areas for the reason of winter floods. The land is completely flat all around it, the rain falls and goes straight into the ground, no reason for it and the fish suffer. I have found pockets of fish holed up in one of the very few deep pockets around a culvert for example and they are stuck there all winter.
Just walked around a river where a new sluice gate was put in a few years ago with no fish run, no mullet to be seen, at least I couldn't see any, used to be full of them.
Walked around the bit where they put a fence along a bit of river to stop people falling in by gad, it was once a nice kept bit of ground for picnics and fishing, now it is fenced off and full of weeds 6 ft high.
I have seen them sloughing through bank side vegetation right in the nesting season and trees chopped down willy nilly. A few years ago they forgot one tree on one stretch but they went back and got it a few years later, the one alder tree left.
No reason for any of this. I would supply pictures but you all know what I mean I am sure.
My feeling this organization is run by university graduate types, good at theory and doing the scientific stuff but when it comes to the practicality of running the environment they are just useless, not a clue. They are like vandals; really have had enough of them. I have not bought a fishing licence this year, they don't deserve one.
Just walked around a river where a new sluice gate was put in a few years ago with no fish run, no mullet to be seen, at least I couldn't see any, used to be full of them.
Walked around the bit where they put a fence along a bit of river to stop people falling in by gad, it was once a nice kept bit of ground for picnics and fishing, now it is fenced off and full of weeds 6 ft high.
I have seen them sloughing through bank side vegetation right in the nesting season and trees chopped down willy nilly. A few years ago they forgot one tree on one stretch but they went back and got it a few years later, the one alder tree left.
No reason for any of this. I would supply pictures but you all know what I mean I am sure.
My feeling this organization is run by university graduate types, good at theory and doing the scientific stuff but when it comes to the practicality of running the environment they are just useless, not a clue. They are like vandals; really have had enough of them. I have not bought a fishing licence this year, they don't deserve one.
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