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Phil Hackett 2
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Ok Guys here’s your chance to help me do some research on the Ribble Barbel. What I’m proposing to do is, to build a profile of the stock dynamics of the river.
Why am I doing it, and for whom?
I am carrying it out purely for my own curiosity as an ecologist, and because I’m getting a bit rusty with my research and data analysis skills and I also believe that we can all learn something from it.
Where will the information be available and to whom?
It is my intentions to publish this information on this site in the form of a scientific paper/article. (It is my intention to make the paper as user friendly as possible for Ribble anglers to understand.) The paper will then be available to anyone who then wishes to look at it on this site.
When will it be available?
Hopefully by mid May at the latest.
It’ll give me something to do during the close season.
So how am I proposing to carry it out?
At the moment there are over three hundred reports on this site, this will form the basis of the bulk of the research data. It’s also interesting the way we report our catches on this site, which is, for confidential reasons, split into only two sections; above Ribchester and below it. However, it would be better for research purposes, if it had been split into three, including below Salmsbury. As this is not the case, I’ll have to make a judgement call on where I think the angler was fishing when he reported a particular catch. Unless of course, you wish to volunteer that information to me, privately in an e-mail.
If you do, I only wish you to confirm one of the three lengths e.g., Above Ribchester, below Ribchester or below Salmbury. I do not wish to know the precise stretch you were fishing, that is none of my business.
I know that many read this site but don’t for good reason report their catches. I would appeal to you if you have kept records of your catches over the last three years to e-mail me with the weight of the fish and which of the three areas you caught them from.
All information will be kept in the strictest confidence and destroyed after the weights and areas are entered on the data sets.
The bottom line on this one is, I’m putting my scientific reputation, my worth as an individual, and an angler on the line here, and I value that more than anything in the world.
From the cursory observations I’ve made so far, I think this research will throw up some very interesting information about the stock dynamics of the whole river, and from that, we can all learn something.
So come on don’t be shy let have the information ASAP.
Why am I doing it, and for whom?
I am carrying it out purely for my own curiosity as an ecologist, and because I’m getting a bit rusty with my research and data analysis skills and I also believe that we can all learn something from it.
Where will the information be available and to whom?
It is my intentions to publish this information on this site in the form of a scientific paper/article. (It is my intention to make the paper as user friendly as possible for Ribble anglers to understand.) The paper will then be available to anyone who then wishes to look at it on this site.
When will it be available?
Hopefully by mid May at the latest.
It’ll give me something to do during the close season.
So how am I proposing to carry it out?
At the moment there are over three hundred reports on this site, this will form the basis of the bulk of the research data. It’s also interesting the way we report our catches on this site, which is, for confidential reasons, split into only two sections; above Ribchester and below it. However, it would be better for research purposes, if it had been split into three, including below Salmsbury. As this is not the case, I’ll have to make a judgement call on where I think the angler was fishing when he reported a particular catch. Unless of course, you wish to volunteer that information to me, privately in an e-mail.
If you do, I only wish you to confirm one of the three lengths e.g., Above Ribchester, below Ribchester or below Salmbury. I do not wish to know the precise stretch you were fishing, that is none of my business.
I know that many read this site but don’t for good reason report their catches. I would appeal to you if you have kept records of your catches over the last three years to e-mail me with the weight of the fish and which of the three areas you caught them from.
All information will be kept in the strictest confidence and destroyed after the weights and areas are entered on the data sets.
The bottom line on this one is, I’m putting my scientific reputation, my worth as an individual, and an angler on the line here, and I value that more than anything in the world.
From the cursory observations I’ve made so far, I think this research will throw up some very interesting information about the stock dynamics of the whole river, and from that, we can all learn something.
So come on don’t be shy let have the information ASAP.