What is the EA doing for angling?

[chesters1]

no such thing as flood alleviation or protection all it does it cause it far worse somewhere else ,bridges are the biggest cause round here (we have several built in the 1200's) as soon as the water hits the top of the arches it floods ,luckily we still have flood plains ,unfortunatly a great % elsewhere due to government mismanagement over the ages are now housing estates

[Bob Bradford]

That is quite correct Chesters, What the EA are actually doing is making large, sparsely populated areas available, to be turned into vast flood plains when the need arises, they have learned the hard way, instead of building piled banks that just push the flood water further downstream to wreak havoc. They still do not "do it" for me where angling is concerned however.

[Leon Roskilly]

A government consultation on water abstraction etc.,

 

Your chance to have a real say

 

 

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2005/050905a.htm

 

Tight Lines - leon

[chappers]

Old_Tony:

 the best bit its all old guys like me fishing there, so what is this all about maybe its about figures.  

They pick on the old boys cos they know they can't run away as fast

[SteveyTHEman]

I had a job interview at the EA. I think it went well, have rang back a couple of times to see how I got on. The man is getting back to me. Lets keep fingers crossed, only been 7 months so expecting a call very soon...

 

It smacks of incompetence, and that is exactly what this company is. Oh hang on, it's not a company because if it was there's no way it would be in business. Needless to say I have not bought a rod licence and never intend to again. If asked for one I think I could very well push them in the river and then ask why they removed all the fish (except Pike) from my favourite streams and moved them to another river ~ I have since learned that river was polluted by Thames water so they needed to re-stock.

 

Good job all round by yet another incompetent government organisation....

[Newt]

Lemme see here. They are incompetent so you intend to break the law?

 

Now there is a plan.

[Peter Waller]

They pick on the old boys cos they know they can't run away as fast

 

You have never seen Chesters heading for a boxed Intrepid at a car-boot sale then?! Us oldies can fairly hoss along, when it suits us!

[Peter Waller]

'yet another incompetent government organisation....'

 

Not incompetent, just underfunded - - - - - because not everyone buys a licence.

[Bob Bradford]

Fishery EA enforcement bailiffs are very thin on the ground, recently I have had reasons to contact the head man for Norfolk and Suffolk, Mr Rupert Pyett, he is based in Ipswich and he told me only the other week that he has 3 part time enforcement officers to cover Norfolk, they do 9 hours per week each! I Bailiff my local river Waveney club stretch at Dunburgh on behalf of my club

www.bctac.co.uk

go to the site and click on "latest news" there is a piece featuring a recent "hit" by Rupert and a colleague, Eastern Europeans have been removing fish stocks on a stretch of river ABOVE our waters, they leave behind all of their rubbish and mess, they build fires on the public footpath and generally, have no respect for our Country, I try to communicate with them and try to educate them into returning the fish they catch, back alive, to date not ONE of them has admitted that they have even caught a fish! they pretend to "No understand", I will state this however, most do possess a current EA rod licence, I know, because I ask them to show me.

 

I am of the belief that some of our rod licence money is syphoned off to pay for "other stuff" the government have recently cut back their funding, so it would be folly to think the service anglers get will get better, quite the reverse is probably true.

 

There are many good reasons why angling (under the new Unity banner) should issue rod licences and run angling properly, using rod licence fees specifically for angling and not allow a Government agency to get it's hands on OUR licence money, I doubt it will ever happen though!

Edited July 17, 2008 by Bob Bradford

[Neil G]

I frequent the rivers lots and have never spotted a club baliff let alone and EA one

 

I have no idea what the EA are doing, very little by the looks of things but TBH as I've said before, I pay the money, forget about it and get on with fishing what I can (or what fish are left).