Professional AdviceYou are here : News and Press » News Archive » Avian Flu » Animal Disease
|
Bird Flu Will Hit Dorset’s Local Economy – Says CLA The discovery of avian flu in wild swans in Dorset is the news nobody wanted to hear – according to the CLA, the rural economy experts.
John Mortimer, South West director of the CLA, said: "News of H5N1 in migratory wildfowl is the outbreak we feared the most. We are working closely with DEFRA to keep in touch with the situation and any developments and we are advising our local members that control areas and monitoring areas have been officially declared and explaining the consequences of those orders. We are advising our members to be extremely vigilant and to observe strict biosecurity controls." The CLA says the news will come as a particular blow to shoots within both zones as the order bans any game bird shooting. "Shooting represents a significant income stream for many farms and estates in Dorset so this ban will have a serious economic impact on the area. The shooting season closes on February 1st and as the restrictions will be in place in the 10km monitoring area for 30 days, it effectively means shooting has finished in that area," he said. In the 3km control area additional measures will include veterinary inspections of poultry premises, restrictions on movements of poultry and other captive birds and conditional restrictions on the movement of meat and meat products from poultry and game. In the monitoring area there will be restrictions on the movement of poultry, captive birds and hatching eggs except under licence and increased biosecurity measures for premises, people and vehicles. The CLA is also advising its members to keep up-to-date with the situation by visiting the DEFRA website at http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases or by calling the national Defra helpline( 08459 335577) or the local helpline at the Taunton Animal Health Office 01823 337799. CLA advisors can be contacted at the CLA regional office on 01249 700200. |
Media Contacts Ollie Wilson T: 020 7460 7936
T: 020 7460 7934
Join the CLA today
The CLA Game Fair 2012
More articles and documents [News Archive] [13 November 2007] GN01-06-Requirements under the Poultry Register [Guidance notes] [16 February 2006] Draft Commission Regulation of on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to state aid to small and medium sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products and amending Regulation (EC) 70/2001 [Consultation response archive] [21 September 2006] |
- Policy Topics
- Policy Topics
- Site sections
- Specially for members
© 2012 Country Land and Business Association Limited (CLA). All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in any retrieval system of any nature without prior written permission of the copyright holder except as expressly permitted by law.
Disclaimer
No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted in this website can be or is accepted by the author(s), the CLA or its officers or trustees or employees or any other persons.
The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned
(a) towards any person who is not the current CLA member to whom the advice was directly given,
(b) to any person in the respect of consequential loss or loss of profits, or
(c) to any person for any sum exceeding £50,000 in respect of any one enquiry (whether made or responded to orally or in writing and whether dealt with at one time or over a period of time).
Any person making use of the Advisory Services accepts such restrictions. Members should refer to appropriate professional advisers in private practice before taking any particular course of action potentially or actually involving any substantial amounts of money.
Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.
Solicitors Indemnity Fund . Solicitors in the CLA Legal Team are not covered by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund in relation to professional negligence in relation to any advice given by them.
Please note that from time to time telephone calls maybe recorded for training purposes.