craigmason Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 PATROLS on South Yorkshire's rivers and canals are to be stepped up after claims that foreign immigrants are catching fish for food. full story here http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1873053 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ sheffield Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 The last thing we need is foreign immigrants polluting our rivers and canals. They have already polluted our pavements (and Netto's shopfloor) with drug resistant Tuberculosis. Most of these fish will be toxic surely, mind you they no doubt have queue jumping status to NHS care so a little cadmium wont hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabbleRatcht Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Fishing again craigmason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brailz Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 At least the immigration people won't be able to claim that they can't find them... They'll all be glowing bright green :gag: after eating anything from that canal :hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 This made the nationals months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkleBob Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 At least the immigration people won't be able to claim that they can't find them... They'll all be glowing bright green :gag: after eating anything from that canal :hihi: the water quality in the sheffield canal is as good as anytthing in europe, that's why it holds so many fish, and other wildlife. Oh, how i love it when a bunch of bemused ramblers walk down the towpath, stop and say can you guess? "is there anything in here then...?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pk014b7161 Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 put some crocs in the rivers to eat the foreign immigrants prob solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brailz Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 the water quality in the sheffield canal is as good as anytthing in europe, that's why it holds so many fish, and other wildlife. Oh, how i love it when a bunch of bemused ramblers walk down the towpath, stop and say can you guess? "is there anything in here then...?" So you're more than happy to regularly eat fish caught in the canal then? Also if the water quality is that good I suppose you swear by it's life giving properties then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkleBob Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 So you're more than happy to regularly eat fish caught in the canal then? Also if the water quality is that good I suppose you swear by it's life giving properties then! no, we don't routinely eat course fish, it's against local bye-laws and against most fishery rules, "no fish to be taken" is on most day tickets/permits. And yes, i will swear by it's life giving qualities! the fish i catch are as healthy as anything else i've caught in all my travels around england. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40summat Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 So you're more than happy to regularly eat fish caught in the canal then? Also if the water quality is that good I suppose you swear by it's life giving properties then! I think unklebob was just trying to say the canal is no longer the stinking cesspit it once was. More worrying is the state of our sea's and oceans, in some sea angling magazines, readers have been asked to report any deformed flat fish species caught around our shores. However, to get back on topic. I don't fish freshwaters but i can confirm that i have personally been approached on two occasions when fishing from a pier in the South East by people asking for the illegaly undersized fish i was returning to the sea. From talking to other anglers and reading the letters pages of the angling press it does seem to be quite common, mostly in stocked waters. Whilst i understand it is normal in some countries and cultures to view the rivers and seas as a source of free food, we do have conservation laws, and for very good reasons. The law of the land should be respected and should be above cultural habits. Millions of pounds are spent stocking fresh waters each year, with polution and natural wild preditors this new threat should be taken seriously. Perhaps it is just a temporary thing, it may take a generation to adjust to a new culture. Court appearences and heavy fines would speed the learning process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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