New project to help fish passage on the River Camel

New project to help fish passage on the River Camel

We are pleased to announce that Westcountry Rivers Trust has been awarded €15,000 from the Open Rivers Programme to deliver a new project within the River Camel in Cornwall. The project will help to restore natural river function, including improving river flow and...
My experience as a Westcountry CSI volunteer for the PRK Project.

My experience as a Westcountry CSI volunteer for the PRK Project.

Volunteers like Nick, 30, from Plymouth, make such a positive difference to our PRK and CSI project. Find out from him why he loves being involved. I started volunteering in September 2021. I had just started an Environmental Science Degree at the University of...
Keeping a watch on water resources and salmon numbers

Keeping a watch on water resources and salmon numbers

This week has so far seen two concerning water-related issues make the news. Water resource On Tuesday 26 July, the Environment Agency convened the National Drought Group (NDG) to consider the potential for declaring a drought in England in August. The group,...
Hard cheese – Roll on the inevitable future

Hard cheese – Roll on the inevitable future

TODAY saw Dairy Crest (now Saputo) receive a £1.5m fine for polluting the River Inny. For those that live by, play in, monitor and/or protect the River Inny, this has been a long time coming, but is also the start of a movement that will not be going away anytime...
World Fish Migration Day

World Fish Migration Day

TODAY is World Fish Migration Day; what better time is there to talk about the work of the Strategic Exe Weirs (SEW) programme. We are working to restore the natural migration patterns for native fish species in the River Exe, including Atlantic salmon, European eel,...