The Blue Pig Angling Club
Are
now the proud owners of the fishing rights to a stretch of the Newport Canal,
Shropshire, (left of Water Lane behind the Shell Garage) Ordinance survey
ref No: -742193. Unfortunately closed to boat traffic as this would help stir
it up.
They have under taken a cleaning programme
whereby all members are getting involved working hard, and actually getting in
the water cleaning out the blanket weed, raking the pegs and putting down hardcore,
moving all the muck and generally cleaning up the environment.
Residents in the area are pleased with
the out come, as this stretch has been neglected for several years. Swans, ducks and moorhens have moved in and
are nesting quite comfortably on the bales of barley straw, which were introduced
to decrease the bacteria levels to keep down the weed, which was covering the
canal, advice that was given by the Environment Agency.
The club are generating it’s own funding
into stocking the canal with donations and match angling funds.
On
Sat 21st June, members of the Blue Pig Angling Club were invited to
Penkridge
Aquaculture College by lecturer Pete Bryan who has kindly offered to do a case
study on the Newport stretch of the canal, now leased to the Blue Pig A.C. Trench,
Telford.
An
integral part of the normal teaching programme at the college is for students
who wish to enter a career into fishery management, Case studies involve a wide
range of subjects from Water quality and environmental studies, plant and fish
biology, relating particularly to sport fisheries but also fish farming, aquatic
and ornamental fish management.
Particular
interest was shown in the brood and breeding of the carp and tench at the hatchery
to which the club hopes to stock the canal in the near future, after the appropriate
studies have been carried out, to determine the head of fish the water will sustain,
it's natural food levels, biology of the aquatic life and water quality.
This
will involve netting and counting of species to see what is in the canal at the
moment
Fish will also be taken away for biological
studies into condition, health and age of existing stock.
The
Club has come on strongly since Sept 1997 and has had to cap it’s membership to
40 due to dedicated members match fishing on a regular basis within the annual,
summer and winter league tables.
Members are also fishing in Hyperspace since the introduction of their Web site, which includes future venues, maps, and Photo gallery and performance tables.
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