Website problems

August 6, 2010

Well I’m hoping that our website problems are now behind us.  It was a strange and unexplainable problem  WE had some regular website visitors unable to see the website, and other who could, then no one could, then we couldn’t access the website to make changes, and finally all the photos went missing.  But after some work by a friend we managed to sort the problem.  He suspected that someone had got access to the editing page and made some nasty changes to settings we didn’t know about.  Anyway enough technical jargon…what have we been up to.

It has been absolutely manic, our projects are now well under way with only two weir projects remaining, and two habitat schemes.  Things have moved at a real pace and we are very pleased with the outcome of everything so far.  The electro fishing has made the weeks fly by.  With over a 3rd of the sites now completed.  The Calder is nearly finished with the surveys.  Some really mixed results, with some places showing big declines and other some improvements, but the most interesting outcome were more salmon in the places where we had found them, and finding salmon in two more locations that previously they hadn’t been. 

The lower Ribble (from Calder foot down) is now nearly completed, also with mixed results, some improvements and some disappointing declines, particularly Showely/Park Brook, where the salmon found for the last two years have vanished, and trout numbers also down.  Water quality in the upper part of the catchment seems to be the main issue.  Some surprising catches have occurred such as: Pike (we had not caught any in the previous 2 years), lots of Dace and lots of Chub.  Our normal  numbers of bullheads, stone loach and Minnows are present and it always amazes everyone who comes out with me just how much life there is even in the smallest of streams!

We have made a start on the upper Hodder with incredible densities of trout and salmon fry found, I hope the trend continues are we move down the river.  It is quite daunting that I have not even started the upper Ribble and I have only 2 months to go!

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