PREDATION: AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER. BIG PICTURE TWO. By Tim Paisley and Mike Heylin.

# 2018 1st edition. 4to paperback (210 x 298mm). Pp148. Colour photographs and diagrams.

# "Researched, compiled and edited by Tim Paisley and Mike Heylin OBE on behalf of the Predation Action Group." Numerous other contributors. Chapters include: Introduction, some more unwelcome truths about predation; PAG's website introduction; Foreword, the PAG Board explains - angling and waterways in extremis; Predation film commentary; EA Assessment of angling; Angling socio-economics; How important is angling? The economic value of fisheries; Rod licence income; Predators and protection; The conservationist's dilemma; Avian predation, a fishery officer's view; Cost of fish rearing; Ottet impacts; Predation on fish farms; Predation on carp farms; Mark Simmonds' fishfarm losses; Report on predation in Cornwall and Devon; Report on otter predation of Yorkshire fisheries; High profile stars from real life who are angler; Predation in Norfolk; A fishery owner's predation assessment; Otter trapping terms and legalities; Otter trapping step by step; The National Gamekeepers' Organisation ruling; Natural england buzzard licence comment; The fencing phenomenon, the RSPB is fencing its reserves; Wasted otter fencing; Life cycle of the salmon; Predation of salmon and brown trout fisheries; Report of the salmon advisory committee; Unanswered letter to Michael Gove at Defra; The decline of barbel; More on the decline of barbel; Farnham Angling Society comment; Angling Trust and predation; Predation Action Group comments re Angling Trust's submission; The biodiversity myth and public opinion; The disneyfication of the countryside; Otters in perspective; John wilson legacy and the angling lobby; Predation Action Group profiles; Reference sources.