Following the alert issued by the Environment Agency on the lead up to Christmas of potential saline incursion, some of our caring and passionate anglers went and visited the River Bure at Acle Dyke at 10:40 am Christmas Day. What met them was a dyke full of dead and dying fish and seagulls in heavy…
For people interested, this is what is sustaining the healthy fish stocks seen and reported in recent years across the river Thurne, despite many of the measures actually failing and continuing to decline within the Broads themselves. This report describes the state of the waterways and compares them to where we need to be for…
England International angler Lee Kerry catches up with the EA’s fisheries technical specialist Steve Lane on the banks of the River Yare to talk about the important work being done for anglers on the Norfolk Broads. To learn more about fishing the Broads and how the Agency and the angling community work in partnership to…
The Environment Agency undertakes annual Hydro Surveys across the Broads The reports are hosted on the Angling Trust Eastern Region Forum for all the regions rivers. https://aterforum.co.uk/index.php/reports-ea-esn/item/234-broads-hydro-acoustic-surveys-2016
The Environment Agency undertakes annual Hydro Surveys across the Broads The reports are hosted on the Angling Trust Eastern Region Forum for all the regions rivers. https://aterforum.co.uk/index.php/reports-ea-esn/item/233-broads-hydro-acoustic-surveys-2015
Tony Gibbons BASG representative on the Broads Forum assisted by Kelvin Allen and John Currie attended yesterdays (30th July) Broads Forum, in spending an hour presenting the history of BASG and both it’s achievement and more importantly the challenges facing angling within the Broads. In a well attended forum made up of local stakeholders from across the…
28 people attended the recent Angling Trust Forum looking at the challenges facing angling within the Broads. The presentations are avalable from the following link.
The Broads Authority is currently engaged in a wide reaching review of all it’s lakes with an aim to restore them back to their former glory and ability to support both recreation and wildlife. A recent workshop attended by a wide number of stakeholders heard the potential plans initially focussed around Hickling Broad and the material and outcomes…
Kelvin Allen the BASG Treasurer and Eastern Region chairman of AT has made the news headlines this week, in calling for some concerted action to manage and protect the Broads National Park from Prrymnesium algae.Over the last 3 weeks the Environment Agency have rescued over 500,000 fish from the Upper Thurne area including Hickling Broad,…
CEFAS are planning to undertake a major survey on Smelt stocks across the Broads. They will be conducting an acoustic tracking study of smelt in the Broads from March 2015. Starting with the tagging commercially caught smelt on the Waveney and tracking their movements throughout the broads area, covering the major waterways from Breydon water upstream.…