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Hello all

I live in Norfolk and I am a keen fisherman and amateur naturalist, I firmly believe the two hobbies go hand in hand. I only fish the rivers and broads in Norfolk during the season, out of season I spend my time walking along the river banks watching the wildlife especially the fish, as I firmly believe I can improve my fishing by observing the fish. I have been doing this over a number of years and know some rivers and it's inhabitants like the back of my hand.

Anyway a couple of weeks I came across hard evidence of a massive theft of spawning Roach that I had been observing. I am as sure as I can be that this theft happened. So I done my duty informed the EA, loclal newspapers and some fishing forums, in efforts to prevent this happening again. Whilst lots believe this theft has happened, and have witnessed similar in the past, I am now getting certain people doing their utmost to discredit any fish theft claims, and I don't know why? have you any ideas, why some peole are going out of their way to try disprove this theft, the strange thing it is people that wouldn't or shouln,t have any knowledge of it other than what they have read. What do you think.?

 

By the way the theft happened on the river Bure between Horstead Mill and Buxton Mill.

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Hi and welcome to AN.

 

Two possible answers to your question spring to mind.

 

The first is that although you may indeed have witnessed evidence of roach removal, it may not have been theft.

Manipulation of fish stocks is a tool that has been used fairly extensivly in the Broads to improve water quality.

There is some information relating to this issue here.

 

The second possibility is that you have indeed witnessed evidence of fish theft and acknowledgement of and discussion about the issue is being activly supressed because the people responsible are imigrants and admitting that it is both happening and damaging stocks minght "undermine community cohesion".

 

I'll leave it to you to decide which.

Edited by Ken L

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Hi

I will rule out the first suggesting, fish manipulation, this is definitely not the case, and as for the second immigrants, now this has been said before, but is very doubtful, as the location is very remote with difficult access, there are only a few immigrants in the area, and they have never been implicated in this type of offence before. You would almost certainly have needed loclal knowledge.

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I will rule out the first suggesting, fish manipulation, this is definitely not the case, and as for the second immigrants, now this has been said before, but is very doubtful, as the location is very remote with difficult access, there are only a few immigrants in the area, and they have never been implicated in this type of offence before. You would almost certainly have needed loclal knowledge.

 

Bob Bradford is the one for this this one.

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Hello all

I live in Norfolk and I am a keen fisherman and amateur naturalist, I firmly believe the two hobbies go hand in hand. I only fish the rivers and broads in Norfolk during the season, out of season I spend my time walking along the river banks watching the wildlife especially the fish, as I firmly believe I can improve my fishing by observing the fish. I have been doing this over a number of years and know some rivers and it's inhabitants like the back of my hand.

Anyway a couple of weeks I came across hard evidence of a massive theft of spawning Roach that I had been observing. I am as sure as I can be that this theft happened. So I done my duty informed the EA, loclal newspapers and some fishing forums, in efforts to prevent this happening again. Whilst lots believe this theft has happened, and have witnessed similar in the past, I am now getting certain people doing their utmost to discredit any fish theft claims, and I don't know why? have you any ideas, why some peole are going out of their way to try disprove this theft, the strange thing it is people that wouldn't or shouln,t have any knowledge of it other than what they have read. What do you think.?

 

By the way the theft happened on the river Bure between Horstead Mill and Buxton Mill.

strange i get a sense all this has been discussed before and i don't mean recently <_<

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

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Whats the betting that they were stolen to provide pike anglers with deadbaits. :o

 

(I'm sorry, I couldn't help it, the devil made me say it :P )

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

 

 

 

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