One more fish from yesterday 13lbs from Ingeston on spinner to Phillip McWalter.


One this morning from the Cockpit at Upper  Bigsweir, Nathan Jubb  16lbs and another badly scarred fish

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As if the canoeing problem was not enough we will now have to deal with this too;-

http://swimforlife.co.uk/wild-swimming/

£55 per hour for swimming lessons, heaven knows what a day trip is going to cost.  Not sure a sausage sandwich is classed as a barbaque lunch though.



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Please read this link if you have not already done so and view the video link in the text.
Alexander Morton has been fighting the salmon farms for year to save Canadian Salmon.  Marine Harvest are the biggest operators who are big  in Scotish waters too.  The scenario in Canada will likely be repeated here too.  She is now to be prosecuted.  She needs support if nothing else.
WSA have very kindly made a donation to her cause and I shall do the same -will you if only a message of solidarity.

June 1, Vancouver Courthouse. 

Read more, and there are ways for you to help.

Please view the link headed  'view film evidence' contained in the script.

Film Hard Evidence https://www.facebook.com/CoastCast/videos/504700969737240/?hc_location=ufi



http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2017/05/marine-harvest-vs-first-nations-in-court.html

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Talking about pollution I saw this from the WUF Director on the Salmon Fishing forum.

Re Algae: I agree, was a few miles above you yesterday evening. The feet were only just visible when you were deep wading and teh water had a green stain. It is still very fishable, but dry sunny weather is not what we need right now. The irony is that all the hard work by WUF, EA and farmers in England has cut phosphate levels in the Lugg by about 20% and the £1m spend by Dwr Cymru in Hereford will reduce the levels in the main stem by a further 3-7%, this would have been enough to minimise algal problems but the situation has worsened in Wales, thanks in part, to the explosion in free range poultry in Radnorshire....Thanks Hugh! I read recently that the UK now gets 30% of its free range eggs from the Ithon subcatchment alone and water quality is declining as a result.

So after all the talk of improved water quality, the streams recovered after fencing and coppicing in many parts of Wales water quality is actually declining. If so why. Who is polluting, are they being prosecuted, is any action being taken.  Does anyone intervene at the planning stage in an attempt to stop the problem.

Some of us are fighting a new poultry unit planned here at Clyro, based on a stream which enters the Wye.  Likely to affect a local holiday site and exit for heavy vehicle onto a fast road on a hill crest and a sharp bend putting lives at risk.  Are WUF incloved in trying to prevent this at the planning stage. If not why not is the question.

Have the phosphate levels actually been cut in the Lugg or is this another claim of success without basis in view of the time scale when phosphates locked in the soil become depleted enough to measure?.

L