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Post by leigh on Sept 8, 2006 20:35:21 GMT -1
I know there's NETS, SEALS and lack of rain this summer but in recent years the River Coquet, ones known for its mass amounts of Sea trout has come to a rapid decline in numbers....Every high tide there up to three SEALS moving right up to the d**n, one mile up river from the sea... Over the years i have seen and heard this and have my regular sea trout conversations with fellow anglers of the night, they also agree and say quite regularly "where the f***k are the sea trout... One angler( not a regular) passed me the other night and i asked him if he had seen or had anything, quite shocked and somewhat exited when he replied "Ive had four" I asked him if i could look at his fish but unintentionally pissed him of when i told him that the fish he had caught where silver stocked Brownies... Is there sea trout reared in the UK and is it very costly? SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, SEALS, NETS, RE-STOCK
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Post by wnion on Sept 8, 2006 21:50:55 GMT -1
You will find that virtually all our sea trout rivers are experiencing the same situation this year. There have been comments about this years poor run in the Trout & Salmon magazine and by Moc Morgan in his monthly article in the Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Magazine, which only goes to confirm what we know already. One local angler was concerned last year here on the river Wnion about the diminishing sea trout stocks; he sent a petition signed with over two hundred signatures to the E A complaining about the situation. Their reply was that the catch returns were no worse than a certain year in the 90s, I think it was 1998 but cant be sure. Last year there were net marks on many of the larger fish that were caught . I personally hope that now they have stopped the Irish nets that we will see better runs of larger fish in the years to come. It is not only seals that we have to worry about , mergansers, goosanders and cormorants are also a major problem on many rivers . The use of sand eel, the sea trouts staple diet while at sea, to make pellets for fish farms, pig food, Fish Oil Capsules for human consumption to name only a few uses for them is also causing a major problem for our fish stocks. I fear that the fish are being hammered from every direction with very little being done so rectify the problems.
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Post by sewinbasher on Sept 9, 2006 8:22:00 GMT -1
You will find that virtually all our sea trout rivers are experiencing the same situation this year. There have been comments about this years poor run in the Trout & Salmon magazine and by Moc Morgan in his monthly article in the Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Magazine, which only goes to confirm what we know already. One local angler was concerned last year here on the river Wnion about the diminishing sea trout stocks; he sent a petition signed with over two hundred signatures to the E A complaining about the situation. Their reply was that the catch returns were no worse than a certain year in the 90s, I think it was 1998 but cant be sure. Last year there were net marks on many of the larger fish that were caught . I personally hope that now they have stopped the Irish nets that we will see better runs of larger fish in the years to come. It is not only seals that we have to worry about , mergansers, goosanders and cormorants are also a major problem on many rivers . The use of sand eel, the sea trouts staple diet while at sea, to make pellets for fish farms, pig food, Fish Oil Capsules for human consumption to name only a few uses for them is also causing a major problem for our fish stocks. I fear that the fish are being hammered from every direction with very little being done so rectify the problems. It is sad but true that it is the impact of a crash in sand eel populations on sea birds rather than fish that will be most likely to provoke enough reaction to get something done.
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Post by leigh on Sept 10, 2006 14:08:05 GMT -1
Kull seals, introduce sand eel, re stock..that kind of thing
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Post by chasb on Sept 10, 2006 15:09:54 GMT -1
In the to too distant past the EA used to stock the coquet with seatrout, together with the waear and tyne bit alas no more.
I doubt if anything effective will ever be done foer the following reasons:
Funding cuts at the EA; Lack of political will - no votes to be won helping fish - seals area diffrent matter of course; The lack of a complete buy ut of all netting offthe NE coast; No bans of neeting in drought conditions; Overfishing of sandeels.
Has seatrout been birds the RSPB would be in full cry now with some sort of campaign but the many rod fisheries organisations seem powerless to do any thing effective.
Besrt thing I can think of is not to waste any more cash on fishing in the UK and use my money to go to Canada where I can catch more and bigger fish in a couple of days than I can in 5 seasons here.
In the UK there's a lot of hot air produced on wildlife, the environment etc. etc. and no real action.
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Post by leigh on Sept 10, 2006 22:00:39 GMT -1
I think the last stocking was 1992
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