Neil Birkett

Happily retired. Love fly fishing for salmon & trout. Any views expressed are mine and I'm still slightly taller than my daughters!

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@KarenShackleto5 Looking to catching up with you Mark
If you have any new footage on a usb that would be great

[IlkleyCleanRiver @CleanIlkley]

The decline of the Wharfe https://t.co/GBEADj2Rc0

[Salmon & Trout Conservation WY @SandTCUKYorks]

Join us at the Great Yorkshire Show from 8th to 11th July to catch up with friends old and new, come see what we are doing to raise funds to support Yorkshire rivers.

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@TheLastLeg Apocalypse Now

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@MattHayesfish Sadly Matt it’s the anglers who suffer This is the result of greed and no forward thinking. If this happens in the UK, I fear the rivers might be closed for a very long time

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (@ScottishEPA) has named the farms, run by two multinational salmon farming companies, with the “highest relative risk” of spreading lice to wild fish and killing them.

[Salmon Scotland @SalmonScotland]

Scottish farmed salmon comes with PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING. “Children and pregnant women should eat NO MORE than two portions per week”.

This is Scotland’s biggest food export and it’s DEADLY.

Shame on this industry and @scotgov for peddling it as a “healthy food”.

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@Spider_fishing Best wishes Steve

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

This should be amazing

[BENEATH BRITISH WATERS Our Freshwater Planet @UnderwaterMedia]

Otley courthouse on 13th April 7.30pm, a presentation on Yorkshire's rivers including 2024 documentary trailer "River Wharfe - A Living Artery"
Will be discussing how important our aquatic species are and why it is vital these areas get restored. #freshwaterfish #rivers #nature

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

Really looking forward to seeing this Mark. Do you still need that catch up sometime?

[BENEATH BRITISH WATERS Our Freshwater Planet @UnderwaterMedia]

It is completed, finally the edit is done. Just working on a trailer due out in Jan 2024. 5 years of filming, 400 hours of footage, lots of late nights and long days. #freshwterfish #rivers #nature @AnglingTrust To put the documentary in to words
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[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

#IsItOk
The wife of the new Secretary of State for the Environment is one of the operational heads of Anglian water, a utility company involved in the largest ever criminal investigation into potential widespread breaches of environmental permit conditions by the EA

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

So it turns out the head of major infrastructure (DCO) planning and stakeholder engagement at @AnglianWater, a company that has been fined a total of £5,755,938 for 72 breaches of environment law, is married to the new Secretary of State for Environment.

Ho hum.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Yorkshire rivers polluted by over one billion litres of sewage in two years."

That the same @YorkshireWater who 'loaned' £940m to their owner without approval from regulator, or any real kind of repayment plan or any kind of security been offered? 🤔

https://t.co/zp4jjvJZCf

[BENEATH BRITISH WATERS Our Freshwater Planet @UnderwaterMedia]

Certainly taken longer than expected, but this will finally be released in 2024 and looking at possible screenings as well. Started in 2018 and filmed in sections underwater,
@CleanIlkley @SandTCUKYorks @AnglingTrust @The_Dalesman @ActivistAnglers @MattHayesfish

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@SandTCUKYorks @Riverflies Great job Tom

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@Feargal_Sharkey More houses, more sewage, more pollution, but all most folk see is ‘what will happen to local traffic, will there be enough parking and school places, will I get a Drs appointment etc etc’
Nobody sees the invisible threat “ where does the s…t go?’

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@UnderwaterMedia Never ends, won’t be long before we don’t have to worry about overpopulation, our rivers will be open sewers, the plague will be next

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@MattHayesfish Would love an opportunity to fish there

[Neil Birkett @NeilBirkett1]

@KarenShackleto5 @Healthyhappy50 Great news, well deserved, good luck