Thomas Turner
Trade Member
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2017
- Messages
- 16,471
- Reaction score
- 87
“The FIN support was, and will remain, the biggest and most significant ‘defining point’ in the history of the Wild Carp Trust.”
Chairman Wild Carp Trust
FIN are delighted to confirm the successful conclusion of a project to save an endangered famous strain of wild carp from Llyngwyn.
This Welsh wild carp water is perhaps the most famous wildie water in the UK. In 2023 it succumbed to agricultural pollution resulting in prolific growth of blue-green algae and blanket weed that negatively affected the oxygen levels and invertebrate life in the lake. Natural Resources Wales recommended the removal of a large number of carp, which were disturbing ammonia trapped in the lake’s sediment. The Wild Carp Trust (WCT) was called in to conduct the fish removal and rehoming activity.
The WCT approached Paul Whitehouse a FIN Trustee and following a FIN grant application the Trustees approved a grant of £3500 to help fund, in particular, the cost of large transportation tanks.
The project following super-human efforts by members of the WCT was concluded and the wild carp rescued are now safe in self-contained lakes and ponds.
This is a project that the WCT is rightly proud and likewise we at FIN are pleased to demonstrate our ability to act swiftly and decisively when the circumstances require it.
This project also falls well within our mission “To revive, rescue and restore freshwater fish populations across the UK”
FIN is now seeking similar projects in the UK.
Below is an extract from the WCT’s Chairman’s report for 2024.
“We were £3,900 short and had only two weeks to sort the tanks before the first rehoming weekend. Cue a miracle, at exactly the right time. John Bailey (who is without doubt our hero of the year) is the angling consultant on TV’s Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. He spoke to Paul Whitehouse about the plight of the Llyngwyn carp and our efforts to save them. Paul, who had filmed at Llyngwyn in 2021, offered to help via his charity Fish in Need (FIN). We were encouraged to make a formal grant application and were interviewed by FIN trustees Simon Clark and Dr Mark Everard. The result was a £3,500 grant from FIN, a personal donation of £400 from Simon, and the best ecology advice we could have dreamt of from Mark. Not only did this fund the transport tanks and give us a new level of conservation awareness, it was the biggest energiser and vote of confidence we could have wished for. So, formally, I raise a glass to the amazing Fish in Need trustees and everything they have done to save the Llyngwyn carp, to Paul Whitehouse for being an amazing bloke, and to John Bailey for being the best mate a chairman could have. Without them the Wild Carp Trust could not have saved so many
Llyngwyn carp, and this report might have told an altogether different and harrowing story.
The FIN support was, and will remain, the biggest and most significant ‘defining point’ in the history of the Wild Carp Trust. So, 2024 has been a phenomenal if slightly exhausting year. We exceeded our 1,000 carp target and learned a great deal in the process.”
The post FIN supports Wild Carp Trust Project to save Welsh Wild Carp appeared first on Thomas Turner Fishing Antiques.
Continue reading...
Chairman Wild Carp Trust
FIN are delighted to confirm the successful conclusion of a project to save an endangered famous strain of wild carp from Llyngwyn.
This Welsh wild carp water is perhaps the most famous wildie water in the UK. In 2023 it succumbed to agricultural pollution resulting in prolific growth of blue-green algae and blanket weed that negatively affected the oxygen levels and invertebrate life in the lake. Natural Resources Wales recommended the removal of a large number of carp, which were disturbing ammonia trapped in the lake’s sediment. The Wild Carp Trust (WCT) was called in to conduct the fish removal and rehoming activity.
The WCT approached Paul Whitehouse a FIN Trustee and following a FIN grant application the Trustees approved a grant of £3500 to help fund, in particular, the cost of large transportation tanks.
The project following super-human efforts by members of the WCT was concluded and the wild carp rescued are now safe in self-contained lakes and ponds.
This is a project that the WCT is rightly proud and likewise we at FIN are pleased to demonstrate our ability to act swiftly and decisively when the circumstances require it.
This project also falls well within our mission “To revive, rescue and restore freshwater fish populations across the UK”
FIN is now seeking similar projects in the UK.
Below is an extract from the WCT’s Chairman’s report for 2024.
“We were £3,900 short and had only two weeks to sort the tanks before the first rehoming weekend. Cue a miracle, at exactly the right time. John Bailey (who is without doubt our hero of the year) is the angling consultant on TV’s Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. He spoke to Paul Whitehouse about the plight of the Llyngwyn carp and our efforts to save them. Paul, who had filmed at Llyngwyn in 2021, offered to help via his charity Fish in Need (FIN). We were encouraged to make a formal grant application and were interviewed by FIN trustees Simon Clark and Dr Mark Everard. The result was a £3,500 grant from FIN, a personal donation of £400 from Simon, and the best ecology advice we could have dreamt of from Mark. Not only did this fund the transport tanks and give us a new level of conservation awareness, it was the biggest energiser and vote of confidence we could have wished for. So, formally, I raise a glass to the amazing Fish in Need trustees and everything they have done to save the Llyngwyn carp, to Paul Whitehouse for being an amazing bloke, and to John Bailey for being the best mate a chairman could have. Without them the Wild Carp Trust could not have saved so many
Llyngwyn carp, and this report might have told an altogether different and harrowing story.
The FIN support was, and will remain, the biggest and most significant ‘defining point’ in the history of the Wild Carp Trust. So, 2024 has been a phenomenal if slightly exhausting year. We exceeded our 1,000 carp target and learned a great deal in the process.”
The post FIN supports Wild Carp Trust Project to save Welsh Wild Carp appeared first on Thomas Turner Fishing Antiques.
Continue reading...