The EA recommended a fishery management consultant who netter a few
carp, pike bream and perch then flushed the rest of the lakes inhabitants
down a very small stream. This happened on the 4th of march.
The Angling club that leases the water found out on the 16th of march, and that was
by 3ed party gossip. One of there fishery management team visited the venue
on his way home from work that day. On arrival the lake was completely
drained. When he inspected the outflow stream he saw several dead roach.
Closer inspection revealed 1000s of roach and perch in distress in only
inches of water. Within one hour several volunteers were on hand to try and
rescue as many fish as possible. An estimated 300lb of roach and perch were
saved from a certain death. They only stopped when the light faded and it
became dangerous to carry on. These fish were rescued from no more than 30
yards of stream. When they left it was obvious that there were still many
100s of fish still left on the receding waters.
Later that night it was revealed that the EA had witnessed these fish
being flushed into the stream and did nothing.
The following day 2 anglers didnt turn up for work, they were back at the stream netting another 100lb of roach rudd and perch. It also came to light that a very large number of signal crayfish had been released into the streem.

Well what can I say, My flabber is absolutely gassted. MMMMMMMM Got a fishing licence????????

[ 17. March 2004, 09:12 PM: Message edited by: Nugg ]

Report the Office in question to head office at Bristol and demand a full inquiry and full public disclosure of their finding.

Great PR for an Agency that’s taking a bit of flack at the moment……….Not!

Take one shotgun aim at the ground and discharge………oops both feet are gone!

That is absolutely disgusting, what do we pay or licence for when this kind of behaviour occurs!

words cannot express how goddawn awful and disgusting that is... I second phil comments. right on the money there phil.
the ea should be like the other ea "ea games" "challange everything" (thats computer games for the oldies )

actualy i'm a little confused :confused:
you say he netted carp pike bream and perch and then later say that perch were flushed and rescued. also if they drained the lake, how did they rescue the fish?

Yup, write to

Dame Barbara Young
Chief Executive
Environment Agency
Rio House
Waterside Drive
Aztec West
Almondsbury
Bristol
BS12 4UD

[ 18. March 2004, 08:13 AM: Message edited by: The Diamond Geezer ]

I, like the rest of you, always buy my annual licence. It's about this time of year that several people will comment on things like where to buy it, how wonderful the value is, post links to EA non payers, etc.
When you hear things like this and the Collins debacle then it really makes you wonder.
Wondering aside, I'll still be buying mine in the belief that
(a) the good points outweigh the bad
( I'm bound to run into that very rare sprcies - notably an EA bailiff!

i think the good does outweigh the bad, i still wonder where my money goes, but some of it must go places i'd want it to go.

Hello Fishboy, why do I feel like I've only read the second half of the story.
So before we all go off half cocked with our squirrel guns pointed at the EA.....
What was this consultants brief, just what had he/she been employed to do? and who employed him, the club or the EA.
If this was part of some fishery management programme why were the leasing club not on site whilst the work was in progress or for 12 daya after the event? I hate hearing about the kind of situation you've just described, but without being in full posession of the facts it's impossible to judge who is to blame or for what?
I hope someone else is confused too, it would make me feel better.