Nets are cheap enough.

Warmwell must be worried?

just out of intrest, gwinear removed the silver fish in order to put more carp in. fact.

It is so unlikely that the virus can be transmitted on nets as to not even be worth considering by DEFRA and CEFAS. Everyone seems to be forgetting that very soon after the Thams took over WA there were a lot of dead fish. This was before KHV had reached the UK – or was it? I have been told that the fish that are dying are old stock and could either be the batch that caused the deaths years ago or fish that were contaminated at the time and survived until this year when a combination of spawning abberations caused by poor weather creating variable conditions more than once, the same poor weather potentially creating run-off of slurry and/or fertilisers that invigorated the growth of blue/green algae which affected water quality reduced the immune systems of those previously-contaminated carp to the extent that the herpes virus flourished again.

We’ve got to accept the fact that every water we fish is likely to be affected within the next five years, ‘natural’, commercial, specimen or match. If carp are in them, carp will die. Note I said LIKELY not DEFINITELY.

Not sure I understood that.

I thought Whiteacres bred their fish, not bought fry in.

@codend wrote:

there is nothing in gwinear !why if its to put more carp in!! and the fish they put in died!

they removed the silvers btw the last fish deaths and yes it has been empty for months.
i corrected your quote saying the silverfish had died along with the carp.
don’t get your arse out….~naughty ~naughty ~naughty ~naughty ~naughty ~naughty ~naughty

ps w/a bred their own fish in the stock ponds and have’nt bought a fish from a outside source for the last 5 or so years.

Has your shop at Warmwell got a load of nets to shift then?

apologise codend,

as long as your nets are dry then viruses shud’nt/can’nt b transferred from one venue to another.

I think you have to be open to the fact that this disease has possibly been around for a long time, perhaps longer than 10 years. Also you have to consider that fish that have it do not necessarly suffer the symptoms immediatly. It is also entirly possible that apparantly healthy looking fish only succumb once the enviroment/condition around them begins to affect them. Things such as stress, diet, water quality, can all have a negative effect. Once the imunity of these infected fish drops below a certain degree, they then suffer the symptoms & die. For all anybody knows, fish farms & fisheries could well have been breeding & supplying fish containing KHV without anybody even realising. It has only been the last few years where big fisheries are being affected with more & more losses that it is coming to the attention of the general angling public via the media. In addition, now that it is notifiable it cannot be swept under the carpet.