Westmorland Wildfowlers Association

Hundreds of acres around the River Kent estuary in Cumbria, tarns, duck ponds, fishing ponds and a pheasant shoot - all these belong to the Westmorland Wildfowlers Association. Charlie Jacoby goes out on to the marsh with WWA member Ryan Teasdale and WWA young shot Lucy Stevens.
For more about the WWA, visit www.westmorlandwildfowlersass...
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Why shoot wildfowl?
Wildfowling is a trade that goes back centuries. In the last 100 years, the wildfowling clubs and shooting organisations of the UK have turned it from a business that depleted duck and geese populations into a conservation effort that ensures healthy populations of waterfowl. Almost anywhere you find duck and geese, especially around the UK’s coastline, you will find wildfowling clubs, with conservation plans and habitat management strategies. Without them, the UK wouldn’t have the waterfowl populations it does.
Catherine Collop, a PhD student at Bournemouth University, conducted a study on Poole harbour in Dorset, which found that walking causes 100 times more disturbance than wildfowling. Furthermore, that wildfowling accounted for just 0.04% of the disturbance activities on Poole Harbour and that the impact was deemed so low that research predicted that there would be no impact on the survival of birds even if it was increased by 25 times. Catherine’s full PhD can be found here: eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/27019/
Catherine’s research shows just how low an impact wildfowling can have, and also, importantly provides some general information on assessing the likely impact of wildfowling. We are now building on this success and have sponsored a follow-up study looking at how the findings from Poole Harbour can be generalised to any site.
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[@danmcn1715]

Keep up the good work an great to see the young blood too.

[@petercresswell5402]

Some dodgy folk popping up on my TV tonight 😉😂👍 Well done lads ....and lasses. Nice to see the club featured on the Channel.

[@forddude1976]

That looks fun and such a bargain too 😉

[@theashbys8863]

Great vid thanks

[@rayeastwood5523]

Brilliant 👍💥

[@mattyallen3396]

Tbh compared to Kiwis and American duck shooters these guys are crap

[@juanluiscanetemangas1307]

@Matty Allen you mean the americans who need 6 shots shotguns and 4 up to 6 guys to take down the guys??... Yeah american "hunters" are awsome.