Projects
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PROJECTS FOR 2012
Salmon Tagging - learn about how we can track salmon and the benefits
PROJECTS FOR 2011
River Don Fish Easement - done and dusted by April!
Easington Habitat Scheme - click to see our progress so far…
Burholme Bridge Habitat Scheme - Volunteers helped erect nearly a kilometre of fencing.
Barrow Brook Weir Removal - Opening up more water to migrating fish.
Boyces Brook Fish Easement - A large redundant weir was made passable.
Calder & Brun Fish Passes - A two-for-one project!
Cam and Gayle Beck - see where we’re up to on this multi-year project.
Stock Beck Habitat Scheme
PAST PROJECTS
It’s important to look after our rivers’ habitat as this is the key to sustaining riverine life. Invertebrates thrive in good habitat and this attracts the fish that feed on them. Fish love to be in clean water with overhanging bankside vegetation and shade from trees. Birds and mammals also love this type of environment as it provides them with cover while they hunt for insects and small fish. The best way of improving habitat is to prevent farm stock getting access to the river by fencing the banks, and planting trees to create new woodland along the river.
Weirs pose a major problem to migrating fish who prefer to spawn in the small tributary streams in the upper reaches of the catchment. Many of the weirs were constructed during the industrial period and are now left redundant, but they still present impassable barriers to fish. Through modifications or complete removal of these weirs, it is possible for a fish to swim from the sea, all the way to the top of the catchment and back again – just how nature intended.
Click to see what other schemes we’ve been involved with, such as Trout in the Classroom and our off-stream spawning channels.