Angling fraternity questions Broads dredging decision
Project Updates - February 8, 2010
EDP24.com reports that anglers have claimed that the Broads Authority in the UK has failed to properly listen to their concerns that dredging Heigham Sound on the Upper Thurne could trigger a bloom of fish-killing algae.
Representatives of Norwich and District Pike Club (NDPC) looked on as the Authority's planning committee approved a scheme to dredge Heigham Sound and then use the spoil to restore an eroded spit of land that once separated the waterway from Duck Broad.
In the public speaking section of the meeting, NDPC committee member John Currie voiced anglers' fears that disturbing sediment through dredging could trigger a repeat of the 1969 catastrophe when an outbreak of the algae prymnesium parva decimated fish stocks in the Thurne system.
He claimed prymnesium, which releases a deadly toxin when it dies, was like a “time-bomb” and said experts at English Nature and the Environment Agency had backed up their concerns over the possible danger of triggering a bloom by disturbing the sediment.
Mr Currie questioned why the Authority had not consulted known experts from other countries and said it had failed to provide the meeting with sufficient details of how it intended to monitor prymnesium levels during the dredging and spit construction.
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