Help The Recovery of the Wye Salmon


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2015-01-04 20:09

I wish you every success. The Habitats Directive which is responsible for so much of these radical govt. policies is in my view hugely flawed.In the south we have weirs being removed from heavily abstracted streams in the name of improving fish migration; resulting in these rivers being reduced to a shallow, fishless trickle without sufficient depth to support fish populations. The trouble is that the Wildlife & Rivers Trusts seem to blindly consider these as universally acceptable solutions which simply isn't the case. The issue with hatcheries is very similar, with no account being taken of the huge losses sustained by salmon at sea, from increased netting and the spread of filthy offshore fish - farms. Like you say all these problems are man-made and Nature can't simply fix them on her own. Good Luck.