Help The Recovery of the Wye Salmon

Dear Mr Chilton (WSA), Update of your dialogue with EA gratefully received. However I maintain WSA should continue to utilise their SNRPs and introduce large quantities of indiginous based salmon to a severely depleted wild breeding stock until unnecessary (approx another 10 years) and, if challenged and taken to court, to use that forum to publicise through the media the fact that the EA have outlawed a regenerative conservation operation that has been shown to be effective by the rod and line capture of returning salmon originating from such replenishment. Keep up the good work. Keep up the regeneration of Wye salmon stocks. Don't let poorly thought out legislation needing review hinder ongoing conservation and regeneration work. The EA don't outlaw plant nurseries do they? Rare plants are legitimately multiplied by propagation, so don't let them outlaw your rare fish nurseries. Every smolt is a seedling, propagating its species...enough returning salmon would make nurseries, hatcheries call them what you like, unnecessary. At the moment the propagation of remaining Wye salmon is necessary to conserve the species and promote their future. Stephen Marsh Smith once put in writing to me that, "the Wye salmon is an endangered species". WUF have improved the environment and habitat, but low numbers of fish OBVIOUSLY need human help too, but the EA have unhelpfully outlawed the WSA hatchery. Hence the required review. The WSA realise that Wye salmon need to be bred into a self supportable population for that regenerated habitat, so I fully support their work. In a decade we wouldn't need petitions if we had EA and WUF support for a hatchery now. Steve Roberts (gobiogobio@hotmail.com)