Well I’ve discussed climate change for far too many times on this blog, but events of recent weeks just show’s how delicate our environment is. We moved from raging temperatures to being immersed in sea water in a matter of weeks, how will our beloved Broads cope with such climatic challenges. Saline Incursions Who is…
Presentation Broads Angling Services Group CIC – (BASG) Minutes of a Meeting Held At The Oaklands Hotel Norwich On 31st Aug 2022 from 7pm Attending: Kelvin Allen Duncan Holmes Tim Colman Allan Kirby Martin Burgess Tony Gibbons Graham Gamble Martyn Page David Todd Chris High Mike Brown Simon Salter Apologies Steve Lane Andy Hindes Gary…
Climate Change Well I’ve been banging on about climate change for many months on this blog and these past few weeks has finally brought the message home to us all. We have seen flows in our rivers some of the lowest, with many fish in distress and many of the tributaries even dry. This is…
During 2022 BASG engaged with Hoveton Parish Council and Love the Broads to implement and deliver a number of Line Recycling Bins throughout the Broads. We have reached agreement with landowners and installed many of these right across the Broads as shown in the images below. Capital funding for the purchase of the Bins was…
Steve Lane has produced this paper based on a program funded by the Water For Tomorrow project. It defines the scope, needs and techniques for implement a catchment scale citizen science water quality monitoring solution for the River Wensum. Wensum Water for Tomorrow: Wensum Citizen Science Feasibility Assessment Report – Final V3.1 is below.
Presentation Broads Angling Services Group CIC – (BASG) Minutes of a Meeting Held At The Oaklands Hotel Norwich On 26th July 2022 from 7pm Attending: Kelvin Allen Duncan Holmes Allan Kirby Martin Burgess Simon Postle Tony Gibbons Phil Grey Graham Gamble Louis Bunn Apologies Kevin Powell Andy Hindes Martyn Page David Todd Update from June…
Another engagement of volunteers on what was the hottest day of the summer undertaking in a scheme coordinated by Norfolk County Councils Non-Native Species Initiative in the management of Himalayan Balsam on the Wensum. This was some of the outcome of their efforts of the team from WACA at Sayers Meadow in Lyng. Great work…
What a start to the summer we have had, with temperatures akin to the Mediterranean. But what does this mean to our natural world and creatures normalised to the northern climate, like Pike. There have been campaigns from the likes of the Pike Anglers Club to highlight this for the past years and with…
BASG distributed 21,000 of these leaflets during July 2022 around all Broads Tourism Businesses, Tousrism Outlets and Tackle Shops. We are grateful that this was part funded by the Environment Agency. To Download in pdf click here.
At its members meetings during 2022, the concept of introducing a Broads style Permit or Passport was explored at length. Postwick on the river Yare was one such venue that was put forward as a potential to pilot this to overcome the anti social behaviors that the venue has embroiled in. Below is some of…