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I don't know the stretch in question but if you follow the press and understand what is happening throughout our river system as a result of privatisation, deregulation, lack of enforcement and the recent observations for the work party I would locate the nearest sewage works outfall and under FOI get data on recent discharges.......
Posted on November 18, 2021 at 11:14 PM
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Go back 3 months to 20 July and the thread on this forum when this precise issue was highlighted. The recent TV news report merely confirms what we all should know; namely that unless we do something about it, it will not go away.
AT through Fish Legal are trying to do so and have at least managed to moderate the EA (which is the body responsible for regulation) position. Check out the link http://clicks.goodformgroup.co.uk/view_online/view_online.php?token...
However Fish Legal is limited in what it can achieve and as JC notes in his own forthright style, whilst the government persists in its favourite pastime of kicking cans down roads (rather than setting us all a good example and binning and recycling them and providing the infrastructure to achieve this), we will continue to self-destruct.
Posted on October 22, 2021 at 8:40 AM
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I've yet to catch up with the last Mortimer & Wheeler offering, but good to note that the increasing agricultural pollution issues affecting rivers were mentioned. Whilst I agree that anything that draws the wider public's attention to this significant problem that we as a country are choosing to ignore must be good, sadly I don't share your hope that it might help the powers that be to take action.
Last week the AT and S&TC (Salmon & Trout Conservation) published its report 'Time to Fix the Broken Water Sector' -http://anglingtrust.net/2021/09/27/time-to-fix-the-broken-water-sec...
This is the most recent in what is now a steady stream of studies sponsored by other environmentally concerned organisations such as the National Trust, RSPB, the Wildlife Trust, the Rivers Trust and others.
These all have a common theme: our water quality is declining year on year, through lax regulation, the weakening of safeguards (the most recent relaxation by the EA of 'permitted' sewage discharges as a response to chemical treatment shortages is a further example) subcontracting responsibility to water companies (whose investment spending means its cheaper to abstract than construct storage, that sewage pipe replacement at current rates will take 2000 years - not a typo - and profits are better diverted to shareholder dividends) and swingeing cuts (with more in the pipeline) on the regulator; the EA.
In the last year there were 400,000 extra sewage spills in the UK (1100 per day). We had the Southern Water prosecution - a glaring exception that required a dedicated employee to force the regulator into action. This revealed that SW management took the view that it was cheaper to pollute and risk any fine than invest in solving the the deficient capacity issues, which is both predictable and much more widespread that we generally hear about. All this has been either sanctioned by or disregarded by the authorities. I'd like to think M&W might succeed where others have failed. I am not holding my breath.
This AT report has been out for a week. It makes for horrendous reading. The BAA and its members all experience the issues raised on a daily basis, but not a single allusion to it on the Forum. I fear that this encapsulates the challenge faced.
Posted on October 05, 2021 at 8:33 AM
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Yes I remember it, in fact I drove past it earlier this month.
Being Hertfordshire based and only coming to the Bewdley area once or twice a year, I first encountered Stan around 2000. The shop was a throwback to the past and a tribute to Stan's eccentricity and disorganised spontenaity. His stock control/rotation policy was a tribute to chaos theory! This approach had its downsides!
Purchasing what he suggested as appropriate feeders I soon found that the powergum fixings were perished. You fought to get round the stock on the floor and lifted things up to see what lurked beneath. Yes his knowledge of the Severn was legendary and he was always willing to give (generally) good and helpful advice, but I've never seen a man who could trouser a £20 note so quickly, who wasn't a member of the magic circle.
Each September when we re-visited the area, we would check his shop window to see if the 'display' had changed. It generally hadn't and we'd swear that the even the dead flies were the same! Probably the only angling retailer this milennium to stock new (ie unused) Efgeeco products!
The shop appears derelict and the window frames are 'going home' at rate of knots. Truly a tribute to a past age!
Posted on September 24, 2021 at 8:29 AM
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M&W Gone Fishing is a delightful series which captures the essence of why so many of us choose to spend time by the river, canal or lake. A respected late friend of mine and fellow club member used to explain that 'you go fishing to catch fish' which although stating the obvious actually misses the point for me. Whilst I do go to catch fish it also allows me to explore the wonders of nature in dramatic habitats and if you are prepared to look, watch and see, presents you with a myriad of wonderful sights and experiences that are everywhere in nature and none more so than close to water. To share this with a good friend and also to catch some fish is as good an experience as you can have and M&W through their enduring friendship through trials and adversity as well as good times, capture this perfectly.
Posted on August 28, 2021 at 6:13 PM
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