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    Lucrative? Don't encourage them Howard!

    I've just had a chat to a very helpful EA officer. Net fishing in the Dour is tantamount to poaching and is therefore an illegal and criminal activity. All incidents should be reported both to the EA Illegal Fishing Helpline and to the Police. For future reference the EA number is:

    0800 807060

    A great deal of time and money has been spent creating a good breeding habitat for both eels and trout so such activity should be reported. European eels have suffered a 95% decline in the last 25 years so are a conservation priority as they are in serious trouble. The last thing they need is persons poaching the breeding populations out of the river to stick in the pot.

    To be fair Roger the EA have very few on-call staff at night at Kent so it is unlikely they could have attended at the time to affect an arrest. The two persons last night were adults, and unlike last time I observed this, were not local Oriental takeaway staff. They were armed with a torch and a two foot triangular net on a pole. My mistake last night was not alerting the Police, I won't make that mistake again.

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