15' Sept 2009 Mrs Virginia Hawkins Clerk to the Committee Sustainability Commlttee Welsh Assernbly Cardiff Boy Cardiff CF99 INA

Dear Mrs Hawluns, I enclose the following evidence regarding the access for canoeists and others to privately owned stretches of above the tidal reaches in .

Firstly, I have just discovered that you are talung evidence on this issue and make a complaint that ths has not been made more widely public, I have therefore only had opporturuty to prepare this evidence over the last 24 hours. This is not adequate time to collect names for a petition whlch I enclose with the evidence. If I had known about the issue earlier 1 would have presented many hundreds of names.

1am a member of a fishing assocxation Cym Deithas Genweirwyr Gwalia Cyf, 1 also take an annutll lease of a stretch of the Ogmore for £2,500 annually and organise a syndicate of 10 fishers to fish that private stretch of water called the Angel Pool syndicate. 1 also am a riparian owner of 3 dit'ferent stretches of the river Ogmore and defended my right of fishing on these stretches in a High Court of Chancery civil action on 17~March 2000 against another organrsation. 1 was awmded exclusive rights to the fishing in the court judgements.

All of the fishing with which I am involved, occurs in the river Ogmore near . The fishing 1s mainly for sea trout and I represent the 10 fishers in the Angel Pool syndicate who are all Welsh voters 1 do not know the numbers of the: members of the Cym Deiths Genweirwyr Gwalia Cyf, but I am sure they are Welsh Voters. J allow many friends, as demonstrated by my petition, to fish the waters In which I have an interest All the names in the petition are Welsh voters.

My legal rights are clear and well defined and I have High Court of Chmeery court judgements to shout I have the sole exclusive right to fish my waters. Obtaining these court judgements cost a significant amount of money in a coun action which lasted twelve years to prove these rights.

I repeat again, I pay £2500 every year to another private ripar~anowner, and organise a syndicate of 10 fishers called the Angel Pool Syndicate.

I do not want to see any change in my legal rights and the people whom I represent do not want a ch11ge in the present law. If I had longer to prepare for thls evidence I would have significant numbers of Welsh votes on the petition.

In the past I have experienced problems with canoeists who attempted to break a verbal agreement. by nttempting to canoe during the fishing period when I had given them permission to canoe only outside the fishing period and after the spawning period .