☠️ Extinction moment imminent Imagine you are a Wye Salmon returning home to spawn You finally complete this odyssey after many hazardous years out in the Atlantic Ocean And then you find the river bed where you are supposed to lay your eggs coated with thick noxious green
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery This is crazy
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery But what happened between 1988-1990? That wasn’t down to IPUs, and whatever it was is the actual reason there are currently very few salmon running the River Wye.
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery The EA and others implicated salmon hatcheries for this decline and closed them down. Now the only conservation wild salmon hatchery is on the Tyne. Which is still the best salmon river in England and Wales.
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery Yup. Still at least someone's making lots of profit & people get to eat cheap chicken 🤬
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery Greed. #torysewageparty are deliberately destroying UK. What are our security forces doing?
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery The people responsible for this should be in jail. Prosecutions not fines.
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery That graph shows Wye salmon rod catches, not numbers as titled. Still a worrying trend but the difference is important and you need to be accurate when making statements like this or people won't take you seriously.
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery A good example of flatlining as referred to in the paper I cite here https://t.co/6nCfftKXpB
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery River water should be potable.
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery As the majority of salmon spawn in Nov Dec, the Wye would have enough flow to run clear that time of year. While I appreciate the chicken debate, salmon numbers had dropped off drastically by 2000 well before 1 chicken shed was built.
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@watsonchas @IoloWilliams2 @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery Is 1988 when large-scale chicken “farming” really took off in the Wye catchment?
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery At what point do the lawsuits really kick in? It can't be acceptable to destroy a river like the Wye.
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery This is so awful. We must run a campaign to stop pple eating chicken. They never used to, they don't need to, a brief moment in human cultural history and it wipes out a species
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@watsonchas @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @RobGMacfarlane @IoloWilliams2 @BenGoldsmith @jaowallace @ActivistAnglers @FriendsUpperWye @WyeSalmon @MarkAvery @IslanderDodd , did you see this? Very worrying.
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