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How many times have you been to a Commercial Fishery and witnessed the ever-increasing Rat population?
How about an over nighter and had your bait bag eaten into by Rats?
What concerns me is the increased chance of contracting Weils disease.
We have more and more high protein baits being used, in turn the rats are growing larger and in numbers. They are not afraid to come up to us any more and pinch food.
Where will this stop?
Poisons are not an option as there is other wildlife around, also the rats immune system has grown accustom to most of the poisons anyway so:
What can the fishery owners do?
What can we do as Anglers?
I am not wanting this thread to be a Pop at Commercial fisheries but more of an awareness of a threat to us as Anglers.
[V]
Stu
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How about an over nighter and had your bait bag eaten into by Rats?
What concerns me is the increased chance of contracting Weils disease.
We have more and more high protein baits being used, in turn the rats are growing larger and in numbers. They are not afraid to come up to us any more and pinch food.
Where will this stop?
Poisons are not an option as there is other wildlife around, also the rats immune system has grown accustom to most of the poisons anyway so:
What can the fishery owners do?
What can we do as Anglers?
I am not wanting this thread to be a Pop at Commercial fisheries but more of an awareness of a threat to us as Anglers.
[V]
Stu
