The Whitehaven News September 7, 1905 Board of Conservatives

Board of Conservatives

The Whitehaven News - September 7, 1905

WEST CUMBERLAND BOARD OF           CONSERVATIVES.        A meeting of the Fishery Board was held at the Union Hall, Whitehaven, on Thursday. Present: Mr. GRICE Mr, RYMER Mr. A. WATT Mr. W. H. CHAPMAN (clerk)        The head water bailiff reported that the Cleator Moor Urban Council had completed the settling pond at the Trumpet Terrace sewage outfall, and it was working all right. It caught all the heavy sediment, but the liquid was still going into the river.        There had not been anything done to Stanton Bridge weir towards erecting a fish pass since the last meeting, and a lot of fish had been hanging out during the dry weather unable to get up as the mill was taking all the water. He also invited Eskdale, where the trout were left dry.        Mr. REA, of Gate House, had erected an electric plant at the old Bobbin Mill, which was driven by water power from the River Mite. He had repaired the old dam, and put up a very small weir across the River Mite to turn the water into the dam. At the time it was done the river was very low, and before the dam got full the river below the outfall of the dam had run dry with the exception of a few holes, with the result that a lot of brown trout were wasted, but there might not be such a dry summer for a very long time. The weir that had been erected was no obstruction to any sea fish getting up the river if there was any water at all. It had been a very bad season so far for the rod fishermen, owing to there being no water when sea trout were running.        Excepting the reading of this report, there was no business other than routine. ******

 

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