Help The Recovery of the Wye Salmon

These actions must take place in order for the Wye to survive as a salmon river. I have been involved with a Wye salmon fishing syndicate for over 20 years and what has happened to the river is a disgrace. The former EA/NRA seemed happy to help other rivers with stocking salmon parr but not the Wye.(eg the Thames and Trent). This is unfair. A lot of people have spent a lot of time and money on the Wye SNR project. If the welsh authorities will not allow stocking, then why cant the owners and anglers pay for this to be carried out at a private hatchery. There would be no involvement by them, so whats the problem??? WUF need more than habitat improvements to kick start the river as clearly this alone has not done what was hoped over the last 18 years! If you have more habitat and there are not enough fish, then you need to have a 5 to 10 year plan where you stock with reared fish at parr stage into semi natural environments. You then give the fish a better chance at returning as adults. Stocking with fry is a waste of time as the fry are fodder for any other living creature. Let us be allowed to complete our SNR project that we started; there will be no cost to any public bodies as it is all privately funded. These stocking projects do work. Iceland has no natural stocking of salmon and all parr are hatchery reared. The Carron, Ure, Delphi, Dovey, Test and Itchen to name but a few have all benefited from stocking so let us stock out river too. We no not want to b dictated my some faceless people who do not know the the first thing about the Wye and the importance of game fisheries to rural and local economies!