Angling Trust acts to relocate seal to protect Severn fish stocks

[Elton]

And this one:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-keith-the-seal.html

[wotnobivvy]

It's strange (or possibly not so strange) that the arrival of a seal in a town centre river has become a catalyst for the anti-angling brigade to steam in and turn it into a war againdt anglers. Most of the anglers that comment seem to be in favour of a natural solution. The Angling Trust seem incapable of keeping foot out of mouth in these situations. They did, to be fair, mention other solutions, but those have been largely ignored by the social media trolls. As usual we anglers get tarred with the same brush, especially by those members of the public that are ignorant of our hobby, and we don't have the time or inclination to answer our critics as we are too busy enjoying ouselves by the waterside. I just hope that the swell of opinion in Bewdley doesn't get physical

[barry luxton]

It's strange (or possibly not so strange) that the arrival of a seal in a town centre river has become a catalyst for the anti-angling brigade to steam in and turn it into a war againdt anglers. Most of the anglers that comment seem to be in favour of a natural solution. The Angling Trust seem incapable of keeping foot out of mouth in these situations. They did, to be fair, mention other solutions, but those have been largely ignored by the social media trolls. As usual we anglers get tarred with the same brush, especially by those members of the public that are ignorant of our hobby, and we don't have the time or inclination to answer our critics as we are too busy enjoying ouselves by the waterside. I just hope that the swell of opinion in Bewdley doesn't get physical

this is where real anglers make a point of distancing themselves from organisations who think they have control of all and thier opinion is sacrosanct and is acting in the name of all anglers. They ain't and they do need to have reality check. They have cocked up yet again.

[Ken L]

It's strange (or possibly not so strange) that the arrival of a seal in a town centre river has become a catalyst for the anti-angling brigade to steam in and turn it into a war againdt anglers. Most of the anglers that comment seem to be in favour of a natural solution. The Angling Trust seem incapable of keeping foot out of mouth in these situations. They did, to be fair, mention other solutions, but those have been largely ignored by the social media trolls. As usual we anglers get tarred with the same brush, especially by those members of the public that are ignorant of our hobby, and we don't have the time or inclination to answer our critics as we are too busy enjoying ouselves by the waterside. I just hope that the swell of opinion in Bewdley doesn't get physical

I don't see much evidence of "the anti-angling brigade".

All I see is the press and public doing what the press and public do when an organisation that supposedly represents anglers as a group makes a grotesquely ill-conceived and arrogant public statement.

 

The comments are not those of some lunatic fringe PeTA whacjobs, they are those of ordinary people outraged by the prospect of shooting a seal because it’s eating a few fish. These are the same people who will respond to any idiotic plan to cull otters and the very same people who got hunting with dogs banned – we cross them at our peril.

 

 

This idiotic statement from the AT is nothing short of a disaster for angling.

 

 

I used to be a member of the ACA and was considering joining the AT, but after this debacle, I’ll keep my money.

[Worms]

I've made my view of the AT known on their FB page...

 

 

 

....and carp Barry!

Edited January 20, 2013 by Worms

[Leon Roskilly]

http://www.facebook.com/michael.heylin

 

Angling Trust has been forced to take action on this because the EA won't. A seal need marine fish to survive and it is an act of cruelty to leave it in freshwater, 60 miles from the sea and in conditions where it can no longer return the way it came because the flood levels are now down. Sign this petition to try to force some action from the Environment Agency.

[barry luxton]

I've made my view of the AT known on their FB page...

 

 

 

....and carp Barry!

huh, your lucky us militants are mearly blocked from commenting. Been blocked and edited out by the trust, thrown off bass, thrown off ukbass, because i like eating them and classed as a commercial no less, comments removed by the eaa, gutless and pointless and they are. i'll nip over and have a look, before your sanitised.

 

can't see you over there Nick, sure you ain't been removed, see this though, i havn't done anything like that yet still banned by the representing body, faceless and gutless, afraid of comments that don't share thier views:

Angling Trust Folks: Swear on this page and it gets deleted. Do it again and you get banned.

 

Edited January 20, 2013 by barry luxton

[John S]

It will die soon enough if it isn't returned to the sea, but then anglers will be blamed for poisoning it.

[Worms]

can't see you over there Nick, sure you ain't been removed,

 

I meant on the Keith the seal page Barry!

[barry luxton]

I meant on the Keith the seal page Barry!

ahhh, your not aka, this guy are you :

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If the local economy is entirely dependent on a bunch of twisted fisherman then I think that it has bigger problems than a solitary seal. Lots of things may be good for the local economy but it doesn't mean that they are morally acceptable.

 

This would all be a bit laughable, but the shady Angling Trust seem to be in receipt of £1.8m of public money which no doubt helps them peddle this kind of nonsense. The fact that they are receiving taxpayers money at the same time conducting PR campaigns to shoot Seals, Cormorants, Goosanders and also want to the exclude or prosecute the rest of us because we may "disturb the fish" when we swim walk cycle or canoe along "their" rivers needs some serious questions asking of them an their friends in government.

 

 

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4751839/Save-Keith-the-seal-petition.html#ixzz2IWlhVDS6

 

 

or, gis a link.

Edited January 20, 2013 by barry luxton