by Daniel Skeats | Oct 1, 2025
WRT Rivers and fisheries team electrofishing to survey fish numbers. Credit Will Templeton With the end of September, the 2025 electrofishing season has come to a close and at Westcountry Rivers Trust we’ve been busy surveying across the summer! Since the start of...
by Rob Griffiths | Sep 25, 2025
We’re delighted to announce the successful removal of a deteriorating weir structure on the River Lemon in Devon. Removing Chipley Mill Weir has reconnected upstream habitat, restored natural river functions and allowed salmonids and other species free access to...
by Alice Broaders | Aug 27, 2025
Photo Credit: Will Templeton. Fisheries officers cataloguing trout during electric fishing survey. The Rivers and Fisheries team at Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) centre their work around the principle of combining a scientific approach with practical techniques to...
by Freya Stacey | Feb 1, 2025
There’s an old cliché that, ‘salmon live in trees’ but there is a deep and intertwined relationship between these fish and the vegetation that symbiotically supports both, not just the salmon. For trees, salmon bring rich nutrients from the sea up with their...
