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.
In 2017 the team at the UEA and JIC proved that toxic alga blooms could be managed by dosing with hydrogen peroxide, 5 years later and the EA hasn’t being able to deliver a working solution on the ground, despite many promises. Below is how this has been tracked by both BASG and the Angling…
Ben Wagstaff published his scientific paper in Dec 2021, which presented results and provided insights for better informed and improved management and mitigation strategies of harmful Prymnesium parvum algal blooms in eutrophic waters worldwide. His work assessing the Toxicity and Mitigating the Impact of Harmful Prymnesium Blooms in Eutrophic Waters of the Norfolk Broads. The document…
During the spring of 2015 a large algal bloom of Prymnesium parvum existed within Hickling Broad and the Upper Thurne system. This led to the Environment Agency undertaking one of the UK largest fish rescues of over 700,000 fish which was widely reported in the national media. However, many thousands of fish were lost, including…