Slacking

The people from Draper Management were out working on the stream down Longmead Road again this morning and there was a bicycle, clearly recovered from the stream, in the back of their pickup. The chap I spoke to was clearly a bit disgusted with the behaviour of average humans; 'worse than animals' he said.

A bit further down was this trolley stack, also clearly recovered from the stream. I thought about taking one of them, but the security lock on the small one on top had been deployed, making it a bit of  a pain to move any distance, and the large one was a bit of a pain to move anyway. Plus, I thought after the event, one lot was probably pulling stuff out of the stream while another lot drive about picking it up. Do not interfere with work in progress.

But I did think that I must have been slacking. I had been wondering about how long it was since I pulled a trolley, particularly since the school holidays might be thought a good time for trolley recovery business, but had quite failed to notice either of these two in the stream.

PS: I still can't find a clear trace of the Draper Fisheries Management people on the Internet. But there is a Kelsey Draper, a co-author of the fishery paper at reference 2. Maybe the same people? But digging a bit further into the twenty or thirty Kelsey Drapers that Bing seems to know about, I light on the one at reference 3, a Colorado girl who lives in Brooklyn, so maybe not. But there are some impressive pictures of chicken farms to be found at reference 4.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/01/longmead-river.html.

Reference 2: http://www.fao.org/fishery/docs/DOCUMENT/eaf_nansen/Reports/EAF-NansenReportNo25_en.pdf. Strengthening the human dimension of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the BCC region. And just in case you didn't know BCC =  Benguela Current Commission.

Reference 3: http://bds.org/staff/draper-kelsey/.

Reference 4: http://www.drapervent.com/.

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