Pesticide, Weed Control and Habitat enhancement

FISHERIES advisers at Chilham are at the cutting edge of new technology to control weed, as well as offering conventional management techniques.

Pond weed has to be professionally managed to prevent the water silting up or disappearing and stop de-oxygenation, which can kill fish.

Weed is exacerbated by nutrients in the water from excessive numbers of wildfowl on lakes and ponds – for example, one swan or goose can produce 12lb of phosphate in a lake annually, which can generate severe algae.

Mid Kent Fisheries is licensed to use chemicals to control weed and staff are all National Proficiency Test Council (NPTC) (unit PA1 and PA6AW) trained in the safe use of pesticides, offering knapsack spraying from boats, or on foot, in the water.

Environmentally friendly alternatives for clients who avoid the use of chemicals in their lakes and ponds are available, with Mid Kent Fisheries offering manual removal of weed using hand scythes and weed cutting boats, with motorised cutters underneath the hull, plus the chain cutting technique.

Chain cutters are a series of linked blades, twisted and jointed together in 40-50ft lengths with a chain at each end, strung across the bed of a lake and operated manually in a see-sawing motion with a person at each end.

If you have similar requirements please feel free to contact Chris Logsdon at Mid Kent Fisheries on 01227 730668

one swan or goose can produce 12lb of phosphate in a lake annually

Environmentally friendly alternatives for clients who avoid the use of chemicals in their lakes and ponds are available,

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