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…
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.
What’s happening to the River Wensum Roach? A team of scientists are carrying a comprehensive investigation in to the health of Wensum Roach. Kelvin caught up with the lead scientist on the Riverbank and what he has to say is worrying. Wensum Roach Studies
Do you remember 1992? football launched the Premier League, John Major won 14million votes, the IRA were still bombing London and the Ford Mondeo seamed space age. It was also the year that the management of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Fishery began its decline. Until 1992 rod licences had been regional, but with privatisation…
On Saturday 24th July 2021 seven individuals including local anglers and conservationists were successfully trained in the safe methods of collecting freshwater invertebrates from the bed of a watercourse as part of the Riverfly Partnership project (https://www.riverflies.org). The individuals had previously achieved to a competent standard a certificate of achievement from an online theoretical course…
After much effort I have obtained the data for fish survey reporting on the Wensum and two other comparable rivers, the Upper Ouse and the river Gipping. The report attached looks at the density and biomass of Roach, Dace, Chub, Perch and Pike, with specific focus on Roach, once so infomass on the Wensum. The…
Who would of thought that again we saw the power of nature following the tidal surge and locking of salinity impact on the northern broads in early April. This demonstrates the challenges facing not only the broads fishery, but its whole freshwater ecology, as climate change continues to ramp up these events with the continuing…
Norwich and District Angling Association lead by Tony Gibbons presented the following paper to the Broads Local Access Forum on the 10th March 2021. This looks at clearing and improving bank side access at: River Thurne, Potter Heigham . River Thurne, Womack Water River Ant, Ludham Bridge It was encouraging to see many of…
Sound guidance on optimal temperature regimes for protecting pike in catch and release activities. The following paper is from Prof. Ian G. Cowx from the International Fisheries Institute University of Hull Pike CR_26Feb_draft-6
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. River Bure Hydro Map 2019 River Yare Hydro Map 2019