I WOULD like to comment on your report on Seahorses, (7th Dec). During the 1950-60 I was a skipper of a trawler fishing in Poole Bay area. I and my other skipper friends were so secretive of the area we fished in we just never spoke about where we saw a lot or where we caught our fish.

I just cannot believe Dr. Collins and Anu Suonpaa have to tell the world via newspapers that there are breeding seahorses in Studland. Most of the people who own yachts and other craft in Poole probably never knew any such fish were there until they read it in a paper.

I think they should increase their efforts on the state of the water that flows into Studland Bay.

By telling the weekend boaters there are seahorses in Studland will only increase the amount of people looking for them.

K CHAPPELL, Poole