mows
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Post by mows on Jan 20, 2016 19:12:34 GMT
www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01598S&TC are raising a petition to try and hold aquaculture to account re sealice. Weve complained long enough about this and the lack of attention. It will be interesting to see how many of us actually get off our buts and sign. It will be very embarrassing if less sign this than there was on the catch and release petition. Cheers Mows
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Post by G Ritchie on Jan 20, 2016 19:42:32 GMT
Done
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Post by lunesman on Jan 20, 2016 20:01:16 GMT
Done.
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Post by almosthadapull on Jan 20, 2016 21:14:47 GMT
Signed.
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Post by christian on Jan 21, 2016 9:43:05 GMT
Signed
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Post by earnfisher on Jan 21, 2016 10:41:11 GMT
Signed. Keep getting petitions from a company called 38 degrees about other things. Was wondering if worthwhile starting one there. Bob
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Post by tynespeycaster on Jan 21, 2016 13:19:56 GMT
done
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Post by devronmac on Jan 21, 2016 15:01:42 GMT
Signed and shared.
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dunkeld
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Post by dunkeld on Jan 21, 2016 15:08:01 GMT
Signed
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herbie29
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Post by herbie29 on Jan 21, 2016 18:00:30 GMT
Done
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Post by sinkingtip on Jan 22, 2016 13:00:11 GMT
Yo !
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fredo
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Post by fredo on Jan 22, 2016 20:30:55 GMT
I signed it. But only because the industry needs more regulation. Interestingly, if anyone cares to look at the Lewis and Harris sea trout catches on Fish Hebrides you will see a very healthy recovery in sea trout catches that is widespread and has been going on for 5+ years now. This has been happening at the same time as the sea lice problem has spiraled completely out of control. Open minds would be wondering why this is possible. Certainly you would expect one or more of the salmonid conservation bodies to be researching the subject? But no, just more netting of sea trout smolts to "prove" what we all know already!
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Post by glenclova on Jan 22, 2016 21:02:36 GMT
Done.
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mows
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Post by mows on Jan 22, 2016 23:21:49 GMT
You raise a good point there Fredo. I've wondered about it as well. I do think the seatrout were affected twice over. On the east coast they were also in decline, with some improvements over the last 2 or 3 years. Personally,I think this is direct result on the stopping of sandeel hoovering in shore. But the increase doesn't necessarily correlate to the seabird numbers so could well be wrong. I also haven't seen or heard of an improvement in seatrout numbers where the salmon cages are directly in the sea lochs near river mouths, when not left fallow or empty at smolt migration time so do think the lice is an issue. The lochy pretty much died until the salmon farms changed practices.
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Mows
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fredo
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Post by fredo on Jan 23, 2016 8:24:56 GMT
It is in sea lochs where the most intense salmon farming takes place that some of the most dramatic improvements in sea trout stocks has taken place. The sand eel fishery over here never wiped out the sandeels and their numbers vary year on year. And it has to be remembered sea trout will eat anything that they can, so I am of the opinion that the sandeel issue has little to do with sea trout stock numbers. On a shoot yesterday I was speaking to keepers who said salmon numbers are now starting to recover in streams running into the lice soup sea lochs. A slower recovery, but a recovery none the less. For some, the above could be an inconvenient truth.
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mows
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Post by mows on Jan 23, 2016 9:25:19 GMT
Fredo, it could also be that after 20 to 30 years of decline, the salmon/seatrout are somehow becoming less susceptible to the effects of sealice. In most populations designed to have massive breeding potential this happens. Look at rabbits and Myxomatosis for example. It is an interest point, but im still of the opinion that the sealice from farms are a major issue on the west coast.
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Mows
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Post by devronmac on Jan 23, 2016 11:25:01 GMT
I think I would want to see concrete evidence from more than one location on the west coast of an improvement in numbers of mature seatrout and salmon returning to the rivers. I witnessed the major decline personally on the west coast of Argyll in the late 1980s when salmon fish farms first started to increase in numbers and I am not hearing many reports of a reversal of that trend other than in rivers such as the Carron in Wester Ross on the west coast where an artificial seatrout and salmon stocking program has been in existence for a number of years. However I am perfectly willing to be proved wrong if indeed I am wrong.
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Post by ravenscraig on Jan 23, 2016 13:19:51 GMT
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Post by stincharlad on Jan 23, 2016 19:32:24 GMT
Signed
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das
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Post by das on Feb 16, 2016 9:12:59 GMT
done
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