Has anybody else spotted this ! ! !
Beeky
www.narrowboatworld.com "click past headline"
British Waterways is spending half a million pounds on tagging sea fish!
BRITISH Waterways has confirmed that it has commissioned the Centre
for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science to carry out a
major, three years electronic fish tagging survey at the Tees Barrage,
at Stockton on Tees.
The study began last month and is being managed by the centre which is
an executive agency of Defra.
Funded by British Waterways, the £500,000 project will provide
'baseline scientific data to help scientists, anglers and wildlife
enthusiasts begin to understand the complex interactions and
relationships around the fish, bird and mammal populations that use
the barrage as a focus for migration and feeding behaviour'.
That will be so upsetting for boaters who are suffering the ever
increasing costs of boating through British Waterways supposed lack of
funding, is that all this money can be found to monitor fish on a
river estuary that has no connection with navigable inland waterways
whatsoever.
The scheme is primarily to monitor fish movements on the Tees to
measure its 'environmental factors that impact on fish migration'.
Which will include data relating to seal predation, salmon and sea
trout numbers in the Tees Estuary.
Laurence Morgan, General Manager for British Waterways Yorkshire tells
us:
There are a great many anecdotal views about the impact of the Tees
Barrage on fishing, with some anglers saying it has improved while
others argue it has declined. The Centre for Environment, Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science is the leading expert in its field and we are
confident that this study will enable it to provide reliable,
scientific and indisputable data which can inform the future
management of the structure and river.”
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