Tamar catchment research to aid increase in salmon smolt numbers
Our fisheries scientific officer Sam Baycock shares outcomes from our ongoing Roadford Mitigation Project. Increasing the number of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts leaving the Tamar catchment is the focus of our Roadford Dam mitigation work. Since the...
Duke of Edinburgh Awards students clear plastic and litter from rivers
TWO Duke of Edinburgh Awards students have cleared plastic and litter from rivers in Cornwall. Jarvis L’Arbalestier, 14, of Stoke Climsland joined us to volunteer in litter picks as part of our Preventing Plastic Pollution project in the Tamar catchment. Jacob...
Double Donations to Help People Revel in Rivers
We have just one week to raise £12,500 to support our citizen science volunteers and education projects. This year, for the first time, Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT), which has been restoring and protecting freshwater environments in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and...