the simple truth is this is the amwell magna fishery.spent the last six, seven years as chairman until the last few months, and ifind myself, and the club find ourselves six years ago now, five, six years ago, having to pick a massive fight with the very people who are charged by us, by the nation and by parliament to protect, nurture and look after these rivers and particularly this kind of river. this part of the river lea is a choke stream. there are only 225 on the entire planet. most of them were here in southern england and this one was on the verge of extinction through lack of flow, it had effectively turned into 2.5 miles of stagnant garden pond. and when you say "lack of flow", isn't that just of flow", isn't thatjust nature telling us that the climate is warming, that here in the southeast of england, things are getting drier, and the river is suffering? no, not in the least, and i know the environment agency would have you believe that, but that overlooks the fact that, as we speak, these most rarest of river ecosystems on th