I think we have to look at this with some degree of common sense the virus only effects carp, which are not an indigenus species to this country being introduced by monks to stew ponds as food for the table, they have in some way spread through out our waterways be it by rivers flooding into residential pools or by delibrate and illegal stocking, I caught my first carp on the Warwickshire Avon well over 30 years ago, by the same time I had witnessed a 17lb carp being caught in a match on the North Bank of the Nene, so fish in wrong places are not new, and not all are deliberate acts, commercials and clubs should have EA30 permission to stock forms for each new stocking, the EA30 form would cover a health check unfortunately it did not cover KHV I am not sure that it still does.
Worse than that is that some fishery owners will not be as honest as Nigel Harrhy at Barston and tell us they have or had a problem, some will even restock without permission, yet we could quite easily be going there and helping to transfer the disease.
Using a disenfectant in my opinion is a waste of time, as most need total immersion for periods of time up to half an hour how many fisheries actually watch , let alone conduct the dipping of nets, which by the way should be replenished every 5 days, I have been to fisheries were it looked like they had not been replenished in weeks.
We may have come to the end of the line with carp soup waters and may just have to be used to catching smaller bags of fish like roach and tench and perch, I know if I was a commercial water owner that I would be reluctant to restock with carp
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