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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)
Guest
The big news this week is that which is now affecting scores of commercial waters across England: Koi Herpes Virus.
And according to a contact of mine in the aquaculture industry, it's worse than people think. It could be that virtually every stocked carp water in England will suffer massive carp deaths. And this heat is not helping.
In Angling Times this week, editor: Richard Lee asks that the EA "Break its silence" regarding what is happening to commercial carp waters.
Let me tell you what I think is happening.
For some years now the heavily stocked carp fisheries have had a charmed life. I am amazed that there hasn't been far more mass deaths than there has.
The whole debacle is our fault, and our fault alone. No lake will tolerate being stuffed full of carp when there is not the food nor oxygen content in those lakes to maintain the stock. So what happens when a virus comes along?
Many many thousands, if not millions of carp will probably have to be burned during the next few months.
The experiment is over! It's time to go back to modestly stocked waters with indigenous species.
The stocking of commercial carp waters has led to the sort of angling excesses we as anglers can frankly do without. Shock Stikks, Bungee elastics and Baggin' Wagglers should not be the future of our great sport, even though some angling journalists like to portray this way.
It's time for a re-think, don't you think?
And according to a contact of mine in the aquaculture industry, it's worse than people think. It could be that virtually every stocked carp water in England will suffer massive carp deaths. And this heat is not helping.
In Angling Times this week, editor: Richard Lee asks that the EA "Break its silence" regarding what is happening to commercial carp waters.
Let me tell you what I think is happening.
For some years now the heavily stocked carp fisheries have had a charmed life. I am amazed that there hasn't been far more mass deaths than there has.
The whole debacle is our fault, and our fault alone. No lake will tolerate being stuffed full of carp when there is not the food nor oxygen content in those lakes to maintain the stock. So what happens when a virus comes along?
Many many thousands, if not millions of carp will probably have to be burned during the next few months.
The experiment is over! It's time to go back to modestly stocked waters with indigenous species.
The stocking of commercial carp waters has led to the sort of angling excesses we as anglers can frankly do without. Shock Stikks, Bungee elastics and Baggin' Wagglers should not be the future of our great sport, even though some angling journalists like to portray this way.
It's time for a re-think, don't you think?