The aim of the workshop is to deliver the facts about the potential pressures on our fisheries, and how anglers and fishery managers can manage, and live alongside these various creatures.
Experts giving presentations include:
Ian Russell, Cefas: will be giving an in-depth talk on the use of fish refuges to reduce damage by cormorants at inland fisheries’.
Stephanie Peay, University of Leeds: How do invasive crayfish affect fish and fisheries? Freshwater crayfish are keystone species in aquatic food webs. They have long been known as prey items for fish, but there is some evidence to suggest that invasive non-native crayfish at high densities have the potential to modify ecosystems and have significant adverse impacts on populations of fish.
David Tipping, Angling Author and Naturalist: ‘Otters – An Alternative Viewpoint’
A menace or a scapegoat? A look at man’s role in altering the balance of freshwater fish populations. Are otters merely exacerbating problems of our own making? What are the angling world’s moral responsibilities towards this indigenous mammal?
Derek Pye, Hull and District Angling Association Fisheries Officer: Otter fencing a large specimen carp water and fishery complex.
Ian Wellby, Blue Roof: Predator proofing your fishery.
Tim Paisley, Predator Action Group: ‘Why the Predation Action Group?’
Tom Hayek, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust:’Ecology and Habitat of Otters in Yorkshire.’
Richard Clark, British Divers Marine Life Rescue:-‘Seals in Freshwater.’
The event is to be held at Goole Leisure Centre, East Yorkshire on Saturday 18t February 2012. Attendance is by advance ticket only, available at a cost of £10 (tea, coffee and buffet lunch included), by emailing organiser Mike Lee at careers@ifm.org.uk
For more information see the event section of the IFM website
