HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Salvelinus alpinus, better known as the Arctic char
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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LET’S start with some good news. I have written many times about the demise of our native white-clawed chalk stream crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes). These had been forced out of their habitat by American Red Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). These invaders had escaped from commercial crayfish farms.
Worse, these unwelcome US critters also carried a fatal crayfish pox that killed our natives but to which they were immune.
Recent surveys and river counts however, have shown that populations of native white-claws are doing much better, whereas the numbers of non-native crayfish are falling fast.
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