loggerhead
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Answered your own supposition. In effect you were making a meaningless statement, a dream perhaps, but with no foundation to current results.We could of course manipulate the figures another way, if any study is carried and I say "if" as we do not know that is going to happen. Now lets say that a study is carried out and it is found that it would be detrimental to our rivers if the CS was altered or indeed abolished. The 26.5% who say they would only support change if it was found not be detrimental would then side with the 38.5% who do not want to see any change giving us 65.0% of anglers in favour of keeping the CS as it is. By the way only 3.5% thought the dates should be changed.
All conjecture of course
From what is being said, Bob, the survey was open to every angler to complete. The fact that 98% or more didn't bother doesn't nulify the results they received. They are the representative of ALL anglers whether they like it or not.So what right do you think they have to suggest changes to the Close Season with only 17,000 odd individual members when there are over 1,000000 anglers in this country ?
How many people don't vote at a general election? Doesn't stop a Goverment ruling the country whether you like them or not.
What makes you think I'm a member? As it happens I'm not, for financial reasons mainly. I'm also not bothered whether they get rid of the close season or not since river fishing could be very poor at that time of year anyway, but if there's no reason (proven by the science about to be gathered, such as it is) to maintain it then it should be abolished. As far as I am concerned it just a load of old fashioned traditionalism that doesn't have much impact any longer.The usual terminology from someone to none members of the trust
I have asked several EA fisheries officers before if it would do any harm and when you actually pin them down to brass tacks, all they have come up with is that repeated captures may weaken the fish to some degree. Now how often does that really happen in a river? In a carp lake I could understand, but rivers are wild and the chances of repeated captures within the CS are more than extremely slim, perhaps twice, but no more. However, getting an EA fisheries man to make a public statement to that effect is rather like getting the Pope (the real one) to question the existance of God except that the EA man could get sacked for it.