Sorry there has been nothing for the last few days , seriously thinking of stopping the blog during the winter months as no doubt the only news to report will be bad news and Iv'e had enough of it.
Having fished the river for 60 years plus its depressing to see it in such a state and some of the issues in the links below illustrate that point. I am personally totally disgusted at the organisations responsible for our river such as the NRW EA and WAG who seemingly refuse to act in the face of overwhelming evidence. As for WUF they have no credibility left whatsoever and no longer engage with anglers in any real degree. Only missed one Annual meeting since its inception in 1997 and certainly won't be going to the one in Ross on Wye. I see they have an online auction to raise money for their charity. Fact is the £15000 ponds they aim for probably wont pay the Directors wages for more that a few months!!
As for the Wye Owners, with certain notable exceptions,they too seem to have negated all responsibility to WUF whilst the value of their fishing crashes around them. Trustees -irrelevant. Wye Conservators Who ???? Not to mention Angling Trust, Affonyd Cymry and the rivers Trust for Wales, not forgetting Welsh Water too. Its all a total shambles. Caught enough salmon personally not to need to catch another but today's anglers, faced with all the restrictions placed on the sport face an increasingly difficult task and I feel sorry for them.
The situation needs someone with real clout and perhaps some money to challenge and galvanise all those now aware of the rivers problems through the courts or any other way they can.
Had a couple of Game fishing catalogues through the post the other day, as thick as a telephone directory. Thought it was somewhat laughable to see all the tackle seemingly essential to catch a fish these days, not to mention the cost Well its not particularly difficult to catch a salmon even with the tackle of yesteryear as long as you have something to catch in front of you. Therein lies the problem.
Many thanks to all those who sent me information over the past years. Perhaps we can do the same next. Apologies for the rant but I feel better for it!!!!
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As an aside if you want to escape the winter for a while and all this country no longer has to offer check out the below site. Be sure to read the reviews of this place such as this one;
Very very lucky to be the first guests in Nyande! The best experience and stay we ever had so far!!
You can see the owner maintain this place with full heart and love. They considerate everything so well, super clean and of course very eco environment.
Here you can snorkeling, star gazing, have nice sunrise and sunset, can see flying fish and also can enjoy the plankton at night lighting around the jetty. It’s like a dreammmm!!! ♥️♥️♥️
Also everyone here is soooooo nice. Esny, Andrew and Mel, we really enjoyed our stay here.
Amazing host, amazing food, amazing tour service, including snorkling (super lucky we had the opportunity to swim closely with ocean manta, lion fish and many many others, no kidding, it will blow your mind!!), visit some remarkable view points and, did islands hopping and visit their villages.
If there is 1000 score as the highest, I definitely give 1000+another 100!
Would love to come back again and meet these lovely people.
Stay here and you won’t regret it!!
https://inews.co.uk/news/rivers-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-livestock-waste-1985648?ito=twitter_share_article-top
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-63720685
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/worst-places-raw-sewage-being-25595765
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Yesterday we started court action to force withdrawal and redrafting
of the Government's Sewage Overflows Plan.
In
2021, raw sewage was spilled into our rivers by water companies for
over 3 million hours.
We are
campaigning for urgent action.
In August, the Government finally announced its Storm Overflows
Discharge Reduction Plan (The Plan). It is supposed to show how
they will deal with sewage pollution, but:
- It is confusing and
contradictory.
- It fails to deal with
the overflows that are causing the problem.
- It sets targets which
would allow water companies to continue dumping unacceptable
amounts of raw sewage over a prolonged period, in some cases up
to 2050.
The laws to
deal with the problem have been in place for many years. The
underlying cause of the current problems is the continued failure of
the water companies to comply with the duties imposed on them, and
the government, to properly enforce them. The Plan does not deal with
this.
WildFish argues that the Plan is unlawful on the grounds that: it
approves continuing unlawful conduct, fails to take into account the
existing law, breaches the Habitats Regulations, and is irrational.
WildFish has instructed leading environmental law barrister James
Maurici KC and Charles Bishop of Landmark Chambers, and Fieldfisher
LLP, to bring the challenge.
You can support the action we are taking
If you support what we are doing, please consider
making a donation - see details here. Our work, including this campaign, is funded
entirely by your donations.
A failing
system
Years of underinvestment and absent regulators have got us where we
are today with widespread illegal sewage discharges. If The Plan is
intended to deal with illegal discharges, it is unlawfully
encouraging law breaking for years to come. If it is not intended to
deal with these illegal discharges, it is irrelevant.
We have no problem with The Plan being used to arrive at an initial
rough estimate of the costs required to provide upgrades to storm
overflows. However, its failure to deal with the vast majority of
relevant outfalls and the production of sub-targets and headline
targets, which have no basis in the application of the existing
regulations, is unacceptable.
Investment in our sewage network is urgently needed now - not over
the next 28 years.
Thank you for your support.
Nick Measham,
CEO, WildFish
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