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STOP THE COMMERCIAL EXPORT OF BABY EELS

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Pete Stringer
8 years ago

Act before it's to late, what is the point of cleaning up our waterway if the food chain is broken?

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Tony Dowdeswell
8 years ago

Vital that action is taken NOW to stop the decline

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John Ralphs Craddock
8 years ago Featured

Long long overdue. The Environment Agency is almost a contradiction in terms. This "harvesting" of elvers is an appalling waste of life. I find it hard to believe that this archaic practice continues. If I can assist in whatever capacity, please let me know.

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Chris Walker
8 years ago

I'm continually stunned that the government bodies treat commercial fishermen like farmers. Farmers have to replant & maintain seed & stock to create a comercial prode

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Justin Howard-Sneyd
8 years ago

Not many women have signed this petition!

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Kevin Hughes
8 years ago

fishery owner wishing to protect the ecollogie of the upper Wye River.

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Richard Hurring
8 years ago

CONSERVATION IS A MUST

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David Milburn
8 years ago

Do it now before it's too late

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Martin Glennie
8 years ago

We must protect the eel which is vital to the health of our river systems.

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Malcolm Mitchell
8 years ago

Best act quickly

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Peter Gunn-Wilkinson
8 years ago

Good stuff Ian and the Marches river fisheries associations

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Robert Markland
8 years ago

The commercial exploitation of the endangered population of eels must stop.

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Francis G Sandison
8 years ago

I never see an eel anymore when fishing.

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Peter Hickman
8 years ago

It is a disgrace that elver fishing has been allowed to take place for the last decade or so. The signs of collapse have been clear for years but the EA has continued to allow this form of fishing. Peter Gough head of NRW fisheries has been told about this on several occassions but has consistanly failed to do anything about it. Under his watch the eel, salmon and sea trout populations have collapsed.

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L Harrison
8 years ago

Essential that export ban is imposed

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martin garside
8 years ago

Preventing the export of elvers is the only way to save this endangered species

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Bridget barnes
8 years ago

It is very important to protect our native species, if we don't show we can do this how can we expect poorer countries todo the same withother endangered creatures.

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Colin Major
8 years ago

Eels are an important part of our river ecology and elver fishing needs to be suspended until stocks recover

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Philip Parkinson
8 years ago

The european eel must be protected from exploitation as a matter of urgency.

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Graham Towey
8 years ago

This has to stop!