Safeguarding fishing interests on the river Usk
Safeguarding fishing interests on the river Usk
From time to time the UUFA publishes articles, written by association members or guest authors, covering contemporary issues affecting the river Usk, its eco-system and those who enjoy the sport it provides. In this section you can browse through an archive of everything we have published to date.
If you might be interesting in authoring an article that would interest members of the UUFA, please get in touch.
At the end of this year the fate of every river in the country will be sealed in one of eleven River Basin Management Plans, as part of the Water Framework Directive.
This is a chance for the people who know their rivers best to make a difference and feed into the decision-making process.
The Wye & Usk Foundation believes that over-abstraction is adversely affecting the fisheries of the River Usk.Welsh Water’s main abstractions are from Usk, Crai and Talybont reservoirs in the upper valley, and from around Usk town to Llandegfedd reservoir and Court Farm treatment works. In addition, BritishWaterways take water for the Brecon canal from the main river at Brecon and from several tributaries.
Can the United Usk Fishermen’s Association influence new fishing bye laws?
The latest scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) concerning European eel is that the stock is outside safe biological limits and current fisheries are not sustainable. Recent recruitment of eel (glass eel) has been as low as 1% of historic levels (measured on a European scale), and adult eels that are migrating to the sea to spawn suffer high mortality rates.
Sophie Arbuthnot of the EAW Ecological Appraisal Team kindly sent the following for we who are alarmed by the lack of eels.
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