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Post by OAA on May 23, 2008 18:56:46 GMT
The Campaign now has it's own website: www.cpwf.co.ukWhy not catch up on the lates news?
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Post by highplains on May 31, 2008 19:53:35 GMT
The web site has been updated. Links added and the like.
Please have patience I am trying to get the site something like but am not as gifted as the experts.
Thanks for your support
Tight lines
Highplains
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Post by highplains on Jul 1, 2008 14:08:41 GMT
The Campaign goes on TV. I am delighted to report that The Campaign is being covered by BBC Wales tonight at 6:30. Radio Cymru early morning news and S4C possible tonight or tomorrow. I did the BBC Wales section Dyfed Jones one of our committee members did the Welsh programmes and for that I can only say a really big thank you. No comments on my casting ability please. It was blowing hard and I am not a natural exhibitionist. I do however expect and will thoroughly deserve any adverse comments. Please go easy Big thanks to the Beeb Highplains www.cpwf.co.uk/
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Post by OAA on Jul 2, 2008 18:31:11 GMT
Further to the above report,
the story has not yet appeared on the BBC Wales news but fingers crossed will be shown within the next few days.
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Post by highplains on Jul 2, 2008 19:39:36 GMT
I have copied the post below from another thread on the grounds that all anglers should be aware of the actions they can take to report illegal activity and how to complain if the Agency fail to take action. Please take a few seconds to read it and take the advice given Regards. Highplains COPY POST FOLLOWS Its got me gobsmacked that a license holder doesn't know who to contact when theres a whiff or sighting of illegal activity be it netting or of any other type suspected fishy activities The 1st point about the commercial netting activity you refer to involving The sandeel fishermen is that they are NOT allowed to take Salmon and Sea Trout... they are not commercially licensed by the EA to do so and therefore operating illegally. Fishery law and local restrictive netting applications will prevent such activities from ever being licensed in the future The EA is the 1st point of contact on 0800 807060 ( 24hr hotline) and when you ring it, give all the information you know including knowledge of vehicles, persons involved. where exactly it is happening, times of observation etc when you have done this, tell the EA you want full and complete feedback. This will ensure that your complaint "HAS" been read and hopefully passed on and investigated. If you see such problems actually happening, make the phone call immediately and ask for IMMEDIATE ATTENDANCE and give your observing position so the EA officer can meet and discuss your observation. If they cannot attend then they should be required to contact you and tell you so,,, then the police should be notified as they have all the same powers of a water bailiff and vice versa as deemed by present fishery legislation being Section 36 -Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. Where complaints are made to the hotline and no action is later found to have not taken when you receive feedback or Not as the case maybe having requested it, then under the EA's customer Charter you should make a complaint about the failure. The EA is in possession of the Government's Charter Mark which requires very high standards of Customer care to be provided and where a Charter holder is found to fail those standards then Number 10 will remove its award See the EA website regarding the Charter conditions which is found at : www.environment-agency.gov.uk/aboutus/582759/and if you wish to make a complaint about a failure to investigate then the info is also to be found at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...sion=1&lang=_e I hope this helps all other forum members
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Post by OAA on Jul 5, 2008 14:24:17 GMT
The campaign has been given another date on which to meet representatives of Minister Elin Jones AM. We are hoping finally to launch the campaign and discuss our response to the review at the assembly, cardiff bay.
It has taken several months and several cancelled dates to be given yet another date, that being 15th July. All going well the campaign will be formally launched on this day.
Any supporters who would like to be present on the 15th, please contact Highplains or myself.
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Post by highplains on Jul 6, 2008 21:48:02 GMT
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Post by highplains on Jul 6, 2008 21:53:34 GMT
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Post by OAA on Jul 7, 2008 19:48:29 GMT
Allan, Well done for the BBC report which was aired tonight. You certainly lived upto to your name with that hat! Is it true that Roger Pinney the reporter gave you some casting lessons afterwards!!
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Post by highplains on Jul 7, 2008 20:19:54 GMT
Well well Wynne, and I thought you and I were friends!
More to come soon.
I hope some of the Ogmore membership will be in Cardiff on the 15th. I look forward to meeting you.
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Post by tonymorris on Jul 9, 2008 14:19:42 GMT
If we all paid our license money into an account anyone prosecuted for not having a valid license could get money to pay the fine from the fund all the surplus could then be used to fight the EA. How many of us would get done? Not many if any. I no longer ask for a license as long as the angler has a permit the rest is between him the EA and his conscience
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Post by highplains on Jul 9, 2008 16:35:17 GMT
Tonymorris,
The only losers in your scenario would be the anglers.
No license= no catch return, no catch return = no record of caught fish at the EAW No record of the fish at the EAW = compulsory catch and release Compulsory catch and release = club at risk of closure Club closes = no fishing.
Buy a license and use legitimate means to have a go at the EAW.
Support the Campaign
Regards.
Highplains
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Post by highplains on Jul 16, 2008 20:32:22 GMT
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Post by highplains on Jul 16, 2008 20:44:00 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you can read the last post which is the full content of the appeal as presented to the Minister yesterday. I believe some photo's will be published soon so I will leave any comments to the "posters" Please take the time to read your campaign contents and please let us have your comments. If you have difficulty reading the post, there is a copy on www.cpwf.co.uk/Which may be easier to read. Please comment and let us have your views. The Campaign is now officially launched and teh work to get protection for our fisheries starts now!!
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Post by tonymorris on Jul 17, 2008 15:41:46 GMT
I disagree this government is very tax orientated and how many of us anglers are there? We pay for a service either directly through license fees or indirectly through taxation. We are next on the list after fox hunting. I am out there at the sharp end as a club bailiff, last season I was threatened by 2 poachers, were the Police interested? I put my head above the parapet to assist the EA not to do their job for them and pay for the pleasure of not being supported by the organization I was helping. Perhaps at the end of the day I don't have the right attitude toward the EA and should consider my position but I am in favor of taking action or we will be ignored in the hope that we will go away. Didn't the Irish boycott their license some years back? But I can't remember over what.
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