The State Of The Loddon
This document is an attempt to summarise factors that may be affecting the health of rivers in the Loddon catchment. It is recognised that there are a huge range of issues that can be an influence and many of these are by no means unique this catchment. It is also conceded that there are a wide range of views and opinions as to factors that are causing problems and the degree by which those issues are an influence. Angling catches at least on the lower Loddon and the lower Blackwater appear to have crashed over the last 10 -15 years. But why? Whatever the issues we do not have a scientific control with which to compare the current situation.
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