Tees Barrage

[lochbois]

I have just received a e-mail from the A-C-A telling me that I,OOO anglers have signed the Petition on their web site . Surely their is more people that are concerned about the slaughter of an endangered species which is a world wide problem. No wonder we are being called a minority by managment . The minority have just stopped the goverment from having a SEA LICENCE, if we get more signitures then they might start listening . All anglers should be concerned about these Barrages . <lochbois>

[avalonangling]

Received my e-mail from them also today & although I do not fish "your waters" over there guys ...I feel fairly confident that at least I am fishing for at least some of the same "tormentors"....it's a BIG POND and I'm sure I seen that one that "Daz"caught in Topsail Beach Pond last fall ;D ;D ;D ;D...Still stickin'...Andrew

[DAZ]

lochbois said:

I have just received a e-mail from the A-C-A telling me that I,OOO anglers have signed the Petition on their web site . Surely their is more people that are concerned about the slaughter of an endangered species which is a world wide problem. No wonder we are being called a minority by managment . The minority have just stopped the goverment from having a SEA LICENCE, if we get more signitures then they might start listening . All anglers should be concerned about these Barrages . <lochbois>

That makes for p1ss poor reading.

Come on mun lads!...Lets pull our fingers out is it!.Even if you are not a member of the site you can still stick your name down...PLEASE!,it takes seconds.

www.a-c-a.org/barrage-petition.html

Cheers.

DAZ.

[shocker]

daz said:

lochbois said:

I have just received a e-mail from the A-C-A telling me that I,OOO anglers have signed the Petition on their web site . Surely their is more people that are concerned about the slaughter of an endangered species which is a world wide problem. No wonder we are being called a minority by managment . The minority have just stopped the goverment from having a SEA LICENCE, if we get more signitures then they might start listening . All anglers should be concerned about these Barrages . <lochbois>

That makes for p1ss poor reading.

Come on mun lads!...Lets pull our fingers out is it!.Even if you are not a member of the site you can still stick your name down...PLEASE!,it takes seconds.

www.a-c-a.org/barrage-petition.html

Cheers.

DAZ.

he's right!it took all of 5 seconds,I timed it.NO EXCUSES

[lochbois]

thanks shocker. i have joined the Whitby Fishing Forum and hope they will add some signitures or even write to the mp or fishing magazine .since i have come onto the internet the biggest shock is the Severn Valley Barrage and the disaster that would have to the fishing on the West Coast and its rivers.Our rivers are just recovering from pollution and to Dam Our rivers just to create World Champions at White Water Olympics is criminal to World Wild life around Britain. Another Dome in the makeing at the tax payers expence.<lochbois>

[lochbois]

I watched on tv where they are introducing the wolf, the moose, wild boar creating Europes first wilderness north of Aberdeen in Scotland.Some people are calling this a Zoo. We have a Zoo down at the Tees Barrage ,we have caged fish, we have a family of performing seals and cormerants that are eating the Fish trapped below the Barrage.Britishwaterways should introduce a few bears around the fish pass ,and charge visiting public to the Zoo .Then they might be able to afford to have a working fish counter and allow migratory fish into the freshwater lagoon above the barrage which they could call a mixed fishery.<lochbois>

[plotter]

done, the wife and son did it also...
i think ive done it before though, but what the heck... ;D ;D
come on guys and girls theres 1500 members on this site at least, with your wifeys or girlfriends sons/daughters that should easily break the 3000 mark easily

[lochbois]

On the E-A website their headline reads Proposals For New Regulations To Protect Salmon and Sea- Trout, they then tell us ,We are proposing to renew the national spring salmon byelaws for a furthur 1Oyears after they expire in December 2008. This is ontop of the 3years scientific reasearch that is trapping fish in a small cage above the fish passage.When are these managers at the E-A going to do something about the thousands of fish slaughtered by seals .I Have been campaigning since i first saw salmon being eaten by the seals in 2002 it is 2008 and it is still happening. How can these people tell fishermen to protect fish stocks ,when they dont even have a fish counter on the River Tees to tell them if their is any spring fish in the river.I will be writing to these people again and i hope that more people will because these people are more concerned about the 2012 olympics yet they still raise the licence fees.I have a 1997 trout and salmon magazine in which the reporter is demanding for the recently opened Tees Barrage should have a fish counter ,we are still waiting.<lochbois>

[kingfisheryh02nxs]

Doesnt the Tees already have a fish counter (ie) they have to remove each fish individually out of the trap manually.

In a report by the EA when the Barrage was first built there was just short of 2000 fish counted through the pass, then here is the laughable bit, they then went on to say they thought only 10% of fish were using the pass. Then they said that the Tees had a run of fish in the region of 20 000 fish.

The people who write this report must feel a right bunch of dicks when they look at there report, then look at where we are now.

[kingfisheryh02nxs]

Here is a copy of what was said in parliament in 2002, the first figure for fish counted in the pass is lower than the report i have read but the estimated run is still the same.

Agenda 21

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what collation of Local Agenda 21 plans is undertaken by her Department; and what monitoring of their progress is made. [25823]



Mr. Meacher [holding answer 9 January 2002]: The Prime Minister set a target for all local authorities to have a Local Agenda 21 strategy in place by end 2000. A Government office survey showed that 93 per cent. of local authorities met this target. Local authorities now have a statutory duty, under the Local Government Act 2000, to prepare community strategies for promoting the social, environmental and economic well-being of their area. Guidance makes clear that these should continue the work done on LA21 strategies. The Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions has responsibility for community strategies. Progress is reported through a best value performance indicator.


14 Jan 2002 : Column 116W


River Tees

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent steps have been taken to improve the cleanliness of the Tees in the last five years; and what improvements there have been in the life of the river resulting from such action. [25445]



Mr. Meacher: The Tees Barrage, which became operational in 1996, protects the river Tees from pollution discharged to the estuary and the river upstream of the barrage is now generally of good or very good quality. In 2001, 1,260 salmon and sea trout were counted in the fish trap at the Tees Barrage compared with 241 sea trout and salmon five years earlier. However, numbers of fish trapped in the barrage fish trap represent only a fraction of those running through the estuary and it is estimated that up to 20,000 salmon and sea trout migrated through the Tees during 2001. There is now also a healthy colony of breeding seals at Teesmouth.

[lochbois]

Yes the fish are hand counted, what a cushy job that is, no wonder they dont want to lose their job to an electronic machine.These are the same people who are going to put three turbines into the white water course and allow 24 hour canoeing at The Britishwaterways site . I think who ever comes up with these ideas must be relaited to that other great architect who built the Angel of The North.Ive been watching the Slaughter at the Barrage now for 6 years ,and ive yet to see a canoe use the white water course when it is in flood late evening or early morning ,so why Britishwaterways are going to put up £12 million in the hope we get a medal in the 2012 olympics is even more crazy.

[lochbois]

Tees Barrage got another visit from BBC Look North<29-4-08>.Fish stocks in the Tees Barrage are to be Electronically tagged as part of a £50,000 pound study into how they live.they call it a Behavioural Study and will take three years.What a terrible waste of tax payers money and the thought that thousands of spawning fish are going to be slaughterd .Britishwaterways are letting this happen under their noses and then try to say they are helping the envoirement with energy saveing projects.Pollution was to blame in the tidal water but at least any survivers had the freasher water to spawn in .Tees fish just cannot get into the freashwater now.The £50,000 pound must be the wages figures to employ a person to empty the cage 24-7 for three years of the Behavioural Study