Barbel for the Nene

[lutra]

So what happened to the ones stocked in '56 then? obviousley didnt thrive lke the Severn ones? So why bother again? is it that hard to understand?

As i understand it barbel were stocked in the Ribble back in the 50's but never got a foot hold. It was only after some lads got caught and prosecuted in the late 70's early 80's that they took off.

[Steve Walker]

So what happened to the ones stocked in '56 then? obviousley didnt thrive lke the Severn ones? So why bother again? is it that hard to understand?

 

 

Hmm, the report does say that the problems were water quality and the lack of fish passes on the locks, which should have been resolved now.

 

As i understand it barbel were stocked in the Ribble back in the 50's but never got a foot hold. It was only after some lads got caught and prosecuted in the late 70's early 80's that they took off.

 

I can think of a few rivers in the North West which now have barbel populations but which have never been officially stocked. Popular fish, barbel, and have a way of hitching lifts in cars.

[Peter Sharpe]

So what happened to the ones stocked in '56 then? obviousley didnt thrive lke the Severn ones? So why bother again? is it that hard to understand?

There have been barbel in the Nene and Welland for a great many years. They used to breed in the Welland in a stretch at West Deeping, but they have been killed off by water abstraction and corresponding low flows. Several hundred were stocked into what was once a fairly strong flowing stretch at Market Deeping, but these days it almost slows to a standstill at times. The Nene around Yarwell is almost ideal for barbel - as long as they don't keep pumping all of the water out of the river.

[Chris Plumb]

There have been barbel in the Nene and Welland for a great many years.

 

The Angling Times put barbel into the Welland in 1955 (at the same time they put some into the Bristol Avon)...

 

 

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Edited October 21, 2008 by Chris Plumb