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Dec 17 2011, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Dec 17 2011, 05:27 PM) I was watching a special on The One Show a week ago about what people eat at Christmas.
I was utterly horrified to hear that a certain element of amateur fishermen are plundering our lakes and rivers of fish and taking them for the pot at home. This is not only illegal but is a serious threat to the sustainability of our rivers and the wider ecosystem.
Is this conduct very prevalent in West Berkshire?
If anyone sees this going on, be sure to report it. Eastern Europeans are active at this, and enjoy swans too: From "World News" 2011-08-03: Fish stocks on Britain's world famous River Wye are being decimated by organised gangs of Eastern European poachers who are plundering fish to sell on the black market. Environmentalists yesterday warned that the number of wild salmon in the river has plummeted by an alarming 57 per cent over the last two years alone. The 134-mile long river, which topped a nationwide poll last year as the country's best waterway, has come under sustained attack from industrial-scale poachers. Picturesque: The River Wye has been voted Britain's favourite waterway, but its wildlife have been plagued by poachers this year
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Dec 17 2011, 07:01 PM
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The bloody fish...
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Dec 18 2011, 07:49 AM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Dec 17 2011, 05:27 PM) I was watching a special on The One Show a week ago about what people eat at Christmas.
I was utterly horrified to hear that a certain element of amateur fishermen are plundering our lakes and rivers of fish and taking them for the pot at home. This is not only illegal but is a serious threat to the sustainability of our rivers and the wider ecosystem.
Is this conduct very prevalent in West Berkshire?
If anyone sees this going on, be sure to report it. Has anyone told Richard Benyon about this .
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Dec 19 2011, 09:34 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Dec 19 2011, 09:14 AM) Is it just me, but I can't see the difference between hooking a fish out of the Kennet to eat and picking blackberrys from the brambles along the bank to do the same? It's just you.
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Dec 19 2011, 09:39 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Dec 19 2011, 09:14 AM) Is it just me, but I can't see the difference between hooking a fish out of the Kennet to eat and picking blackberrys from the brambles along the bank to do the same? But the thread is not about 'hooking a fish' it's about industrial scale fish poaching. Wild blackberries have no commercial value, whereas fish are a very lucrative 'crop'.
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Dec 19 2011, 09:42 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Dec 19 2011, 09:14 AM) Is it just me, but I can't see the difference between hooking a fish out of the Kennet to eat and picking blackberrys from the brambles along the bank to do the same? It all sounds a bit fishy to me.
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Dec 19 2011, 11:10 AM
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QUOTE (xjay1337 @ Dec 19 2011, 09:42 AM) It all sounds a bit fishy to me. Very good!! Perhaps we could get a TV Chef; Kennet pike with a blackberry sauce....
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Dec 19 2011, 03:30 PM
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QUOTE (blackdog @ Dec 19 2011, 11:59 AM) What is needed is a high demand for crayfish, the Kennet is infested with the blighters - http://www.riverkennet.org/crayfish_campaign.phpAs teenagers, friends and I caught well over 70 crayfish one day in the river Lambourne, near Shaw Social Club. We were only there about 2 hours too. We secured a mackerel to a net with a small piece of fishing line through the gill, tied a long piece of rope to the net and lowered the net from the A339 bridge allowing the current to carry it under the bridge a few yards and left it for 5-10 minutes at a time. Each time we pulled the net up there were more than the time before, almost like word was getting around the crayfish community that a holy mackerel was whisking them off to a better place in the sky (our bucket on the bridge). Incredible how many there were living under that bridge...! I like to think we invented the show 'Deadliest Catch' that day... ;-) BTW, I've only just found out from the link you posted that you need permission to catch them, and that it is illegal to put them back... If anyone asks; 'you aint seen me.... Roight?!'
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Dec 19 2011, 04:39 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Dec 19 2011, 11:47 AM) I can see some amusement brewing here. Gone are the days of honest poaching......... Umm a poached egg on fish, specially kippers - now you are talking. Sorry Nothing Much, but I couldn't resist!!
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Dec 20 2011, 08:57 AM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Dec 20 2011, 01:44 AM) Very good!! Perhaps we could get a TV Chef; Kennet pike with a blackberry sauce
Nice!!! Turnpikey with blackberry sauce?
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