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Jim Roper

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Jim Roper last won the day on April 17 2023

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    Shooting, Fishing, Local History, Preservation of English Culture.

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  1. Can they be damaged by handing like mackerel can?
  2. You haven't seen all the evidence! Only a few people have.
  3. All sorts of reading being done on this. Dangerously high oxygen levels can be the result of too much Hydrogen Peroxide, it seems. When D-DAS tested, the oxygen level in Lavender was a lot higher than the other lakes.
  4. This Golden Algae is sometimes found in estuaries where there is salt water or closed lakes very close to the sea, so it seems. I wonder if it could be spread by sea birds like Cormorants!!!!!!!!! I doubt anyone would admit it!!!!!!!!
  5. As far as I can see, the tests so far are on the water samples. Waiting for test results on the dying fish! They have to be tested while alive. The dead duck was burned, so no post mortem possible. People who saw the dead fish are sceptical about the initial EA findings. Not sure if there are likely to be survivors yet. The lock that was glued up was definitely down to a Churchill operative!
  6. EA initial test results suggest Golden Algae is to blame, Prymnesium Parvum, very rare but often the cause of deaths in lakes close to the sea. "We have now received preliminary results from our water quality and algae samples that were taken from the fishery last week. The water quality and chemistry results show nothing out of the ordinary or anything that would suggest that there has been any polluting matter introduced to the lake that could result in a fish mortality. Analysis of the algal sample found a high algal abundance with some spiky form diatoms present and also golden algae and dinophytes. The latter two have been associated with unexplained fish kills in very low abundance. That coupled with an overall high algal abundance will most likely be causing dissolved oxygen fluctuations which can also result in fish kills occurring. Our visual checks of the fish also suggest that the most likely cause of the mortality was the algae present in the lake at the time. As we receive final confirmation of all results we will let you know. Kind regards,"
  7. A further issue:- CEFAS thought they found a couple of Prussian Carp among the dead fish, seems there have been other reports of this invasive species that appears to have very dominant genes that take over from whatever others they hybridize with. The EA are trying to find out where they are coming from. I have never bought any Crucians at all.
  8. It was me, not the Police, that were called Good Friday morning. Plod are waiting for EA test results, before they do anything. It has got a crime number, though!
  9. I have a sign on the gate that reads "Beware of sudden gunfire" in Polish.
  10. I was fairly sure they do council work!
  11. Carp, no Catfish! A chap was kicked off about a month ago and the gate lock was glued up a week later. He works for a toilet cleaning company named Churchill !!!
  12. Suspected fish poisoning incident near Weymouth, Dorset. Beware of someone driving a van with Churchill, a cleaning company, on the side.
  13. A chap did pretty good on my place using some 'smoky mackerel' flavoured boilies.
  14. The most cormorants I've seen at Radipole recently is 8, a few years ago it was nearer 80.
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