Seriously Bad News.

[Worthy]

This is seriously bad news for both anglers and the tourist industry and even worse news for the fish and our environment.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment ... _1_1343244

[Poppy]

Most here - in fact almost all - can't get past Potter Bridge.......

[marshman]

Oh dear ,another serious case for iwitness24 to solve!!

This subject unsurprisingly is well documented elsewhere but I remain unconvinced it was caused by anything other than very very unusual conditions.

However, what it must never do,is provide further ammunition for the anti boating lobby north of Potter Bridge.

Ecosystems will recover but once closed to navigation, boats would find it hard to restore navigational rights - you only have to look at other local tidal waters which have been "snaffled" by their owners who do not want to share with others, what probably these boaters probably have a legal right to use.

Now that would be SERIOUSLY bad news!

[Antares_9]

Most here - in fact almost all - can't get past Potter Bridge.......

Are you suggesting that means we don't care what happens there ? Also most of us have tenders for that kind of water so can actually get into almost anywhere.

[Guest]

....and to think that the risk of it being caused by BA dredging could have been completely avoided by the simple expedient of letting the only access to Hickling and Horsey silt up completely.

Then it would have just left the risk of it occurring naturally anyway, as it has done there before.

...which is still possibly the real cause on this occasion, until the facts are known, rather than the usual press hype in that link.

[Worthy]

....and to think that the risk of it being caused by BA dredging could have been completely avoided by the simple expedient of letting the only access to Hickling and Horsey silt up completely.

Then it would have just left the risk of it occurring naturally anyway, as it has done there before.

...which is still possibly the real cause on this occasion, until the facts are known, rather than the usual press hype in that link.

You know it's not that simple, so don't pretend otherwise. You are either being belligerent or injudicious, it’s far more complex than that, so wise up, do some research, then make some sensible comments. There’s a good chap.

[Guest]

or just simply wait for the real facts to emerge.....

[Worthy]

or just simply wait for the real facts to emerge.....

Lets' debate it at national level with Keith Arthur on Talksport tomorrow between 6am and 8am, yes it's considered that serious.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/

[marshman]

Well? Did a journalist actually make a comment that could be relied upon to be factually correct and appropriate?

That might be a first!!!!

[pks1702]

And wasn't Keith Arthur well informed.... I was unaware the EA are responsible for Navigation on the Broads

He hardly challenged the caller from Gorelston but just allowed him to witter on.

Spring and the change in water temperature have often sparked fish kills e.g. Spring Virema (SVC) in the Cyprinds genus. It looks to me a convenient band for some to jump on to further an argument that is unproven, why not just let the facts be know first?

Any fish kill is sad but I don't recall these same people banging the drum when there have been salt incursions with a similar effect but then again I guess even the BA could not be blamed for them, could they ....

[MY littleboat]

Oh dear ,another serious case for iwitness24 to solve!!

This subject unsurprisingly is well documented elsewhere but I remain unconvinced it was caused by anything other than very very unusual conditions.

However, what it must never do,is provide further ammunition for the anti boating lobby north of Potter Bridge.

Ecosystems will recover but once closed to navigation, boats would find it hard to restore navigational rights - you only have to look at other local tidal waters which have been "snaffled" by their owners who do not want to share with others, what probably these boaters probably have a legal right to use.

Now that would be SERIOUSLY bad news!

100% agree

Also, it is worth those who make acqusations that dredging is the cause to understand what lack of dredging does to the eco-system of a waterway that becomes shallower over time and what the benefits the removal of sediment have on the eco-systems of those waters - generally speaking as the water shallows, more light promotes the growth of algae etc, along with this land run-offs where fertilisers and other nutrients enter the water this adds to the more 'ideal' conditions of rapid growth.

The fishing lobby is very powerful, alot like the Ramblers and the outrageously NERC act, where lobbying has banned motor vehicles from all but a handful of our green lanes, if we do not protect our waterways access we will lose it guaranteed