Stour and Orwell recreational fishery why it failed.

[Leon Roskilly]

Could have been a win win result.

 

Instead it was engineered to be a lose lose result.

 

It may just take a while for some to realise just how much unintended damage they have done to themselves.

 

Tight Lines - leon

[sam-cox]

HEAR, HEAR!

[RUDD]

sam-cox:

I heard on the vine that wiskers was used as a example, the other commercials basicaly just didnt want the recreational sea angling only plans to go ahead. Short sited I feel, more fish would benifit us all.

I think Whiskers lives in a house boat down at the ferry while the rest of the commercial's live in houses.

Could this be a reason why he was used as an example - The poor fisherman who struggles to make a living.

[sam-cox]

its only what i heard.

[wurzel]

Whiskers does not live in a house boat, and he defently aint poor, and I can't remember any one ever saying he was, it is well known that he likes the odd pint, he has always been a seasonal fisherman, working the summer months.

At least while he is jobing around onshore he isn't catching your precious bass.

 

Leon

please explain unintended damage that we have done to our selves.

[sam-cox]

I do not think that any genuin commercial fisherman would delibratly catch so many fish as to put himself out of buisness, but thats what the indestry has done as a whole. We are to good at it now, maybe if we took every bodys gps plotters, radars, engines, and vhfs away and made all fishing boats use sale power, all netts nylon not mono there would be more fish of better size.

[wurzel]

my nylon nets are out fishing the mono ones at the moment.

 

So I might as well sell up now then Sam, as there is nothing left for me to catch.

[sam-cox]

more bass in the sea than ever before, i would just like them to be bigger.

[Leon Roskilly]

wurzel:

please explain unintended damage that we have done to our selves.

Sorry Wurzel, I've been thinking about explaining some things, but that would mean breaking some confidences which I don't do.

 

Tight Lines - leon

[wurzel]

I can't argue with that Sam, so would I.

 

Leon

Ive read some of your attachment, I still say they are only after your money.

 

I noticed you are mentioned in dispatches.

 

The discussion was a bit one sided as there was no comercial fishermen there to defend them selves.

I noticed the dreaded wall of death mentioned, I wish I new were I could get one,

There was reference to 60 charter boats fishing in the Thames estaury, do you not think they might have had some effect?

 

Some thing to think on,

Say the Stour and Orwell recreational fishery was up and running, 10 anglers catch 2 x 4lb bass = 80lb x 7 days = 560lb x 5 months = 11200lb = aprox 5 ton,

I would be very suprised if whiskers ever caught more than 1.5 tons in any one season.

 

I say again the Stour and Orwell will not sustain a large angling center.