Yep the canoeists are a bunch of vandals, happily disturbing spawning beds. Anti-nature scumbags

They seem to regard themselves as martyrs, for something or other.

The photo was lifted from a canoeing message board a few years ago.

The sign was erected by a community council in the upper Conwy valley as visiting groups of unauthorized canoeists were regularly disturbing services in a nearby chapel with their rowdy behavior and inconsiderate parking of their vehicles, there was also complaints about them getting dressed/undressed and urinating in full view of the chapel goers.

The bunch of militants in the photo had come there that day deliberately looking for a confrontation and to show their contempt for the locals.

This is the sort of confrontation they were hoping for.

http://www.simondawson.com/phseiont.htm

I’d like to do a piece on this issue. It links with other things I’ve written, most recently this, http://jacothenorth.net/blog/fleece-jacket-fascists/ Whose photograph is that you used?

Probably because traditional country pursuits like fishing and shooting are almost entirely practiced by local Welsh people not tourists.

80% or more of angling rights on Wales rivers are controlled by local angling associations, some more than 100 years old – originally formed by groups of miners and quarry men to provide game angling (salmon, sewin) for local people at a reasonable cost.

While rivers in Scotland and much of rural England are largely in the hands of wealthy individual land owners and game angling is only for the privileged few, in Wales it’s open to anyone at a very reasonable cost.

You’d think the Labour Party would applaud such a ‘socialist’ initiative but as we all know the Labour Party hates the countryside and the people who live there, particularly if they happen to be Welsh and country sports like angling aren’t seen to be PC.

It comes to something when a body like the very English Countryside Alliance are doing more to protect the interests of Welsh people than Plaid who seem quite happy to see Wales rivers and countryside opened up to all-comers, both Leanne Wood and Rhodri Glyn are big supporters of ‘open access’.

Many anglers contacted their AM’s about the biased survey and it was actually pulled a day or so early.

The WG’s vision for our rivers.
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh175/Ogmore_2008/Conwy_zps584fb624.jpg

Has anyone asked the ‘Welsh’ Government why the questionnaire does not cover anglers. And why it’s so keen to push ‘adventure sports’, with their appalling record for not employing locals.

http://www.countryside-alliance.org/ca/campaigns-fishing/outdoor-tourism-survey-ignores-fishing-and-shooting

Some background stuff to this long running saga here.

http://seatrout.proboards.com/thread/1631/canoes-announcement