Last chance LEAD SHOT - AS AT 9PM YOU HAVE THREE HOURS LEFT!

[enfieldspares]

It is quite possible indeed to just complete page one...ONLY of the survey and add a single "General Comment" and then click through leaving all other parts blank if time is pressing. Just because you don't have an answer to input to every section doesn't exclude from making one single "General Comment".

Here's a link. Making this (further submission) took me but five minutes by making in this merely the one observation as below in "General Comment":

https://consultations.hse.gov.uk/crd-reach/restriction-proposals-004/

Here is mine. Please feel able to use it if you wish:

Why have the New Zealand "Fish and Game" Regulations not been considered?

As in

https://fishandgame.org.nz/game-bird-hunting-in-new-zealand/hunting-regulations/non-toxic-shot-regulations/

Below is what would be useful to be considered for the United Kingdom and, indeed, would bring the law in England and Wales regarding geese and ducks shot over land into line with the law in Scotland. Lead shot being banned....for use in the conditions below ONLY...for all calibres of shotgun excluding .410" when:

Lead shot being prohibited for:
- ALL waterfowl hunters including private landowners hunting on their own property hunting or killing waterfowl within 200m of water.

But lead shot is continued to be allowed, in New Zealand, in all bores of shotgun as well as .410" in the circumstances below:
- ALL hunters of upland game (all pheasants) are exempted. That's because research has shown these birds are not affected because the shot "in the uplands" is so widely dispersed
- Users of a .410 bore shotgun
- All hunters who pass the "200m rule test" (see below).

The "200m Rule Test" being:
- If you're hunting waterfowl (swans, geese, ducks), MORE THAN 200 metres from a water body, which is taken as any stream, river, lake or tidal area, "more than 3m wide," you can continue to use lead shot, if you wish. Lead shot that falls on land away from water is not a significant risk to waterfowl
- If you are hunting BOTH upland AND waterfowl within 200m of a waterway, more than 3m in width, then you must use ONLY non-toxic shot
- If you hunt in a tidal area, then the 200m rule applies from the Mean High Water Mark. So you may be 500 metres away from the water's edge at low tide, but this is not a defence. Similarly, if you're hunting next to floodwaters it is the edge of the floodwater at that time that you measure the 200m from.

The New Zealand Fish and Game Rules carry this simple to understand reasoning that would quite easily be applied to the UK:
- The 200m rule may sound like an odd exemption, but it does allow, for instance, hunting waterfowl over paddocks with lead and allows lead to be used for ALL upland game bird hunting, ALL clay target shooting and ALL farm pest control.
- The 200m rule recognises that lead is not a problem away from waterways.

So I would ask, as are many many others that the New Zealand Rules be considered as a sensible, workable and cost free as no compensation would be required solution for the United Kingdom.

[Scrimshanker]

Done 👍🏽

[London Best]

Just finished doing my contribution.

[Stuarta]

Done

[Ttfjlc]

done 👍