The Black Rock Lave Net Heritage Fishery

Our fishery's allowed catch is based on ....and we quote NRW . "The mortality rate of the Wye rod fishery ( fishing catch & release ) or...

As some times happens there is very little fishing in june due to the spring tides falling on weekends during the month......the are only...

A visit to our fishery by BBC wales on the opening day of the season . great to welcome Nelli and the team down to Black rock . The...

In the past couple of weeks pollution incidents on The Ebbw , Rumney river and in west Wales all killing trout & salmon . Until this...

Our rivers once supported an industrial salmon fishing effort . On the Welsh region of the Severn estuary there is nothing left now other...

If "heritage fishery's " are to survive in the 21st century then they could do worse than to look at our lave net fishery. For the past...

No net required........

To put things in perspective ,for 99.9% of the year our fishermen cannot fish with the lave net........In June this year for example...

After months of preparation the new season begins. On paper 1st June but as we cannot fish weekends the 1st tide will be 1.40pm Monday...

The second severn crossing was built through the middle of our lave net fishing grounds . It has had many effects . The noise ,vibration...