Monitoring salmon stocks in the River Teign
OUR fisheries team members Sam Baycock and George Stone have been joined this year on the River Teign by Mike Rego for The Moorlander to share how our electrofishing surveys as part of the River Teign Restoration Project help monitor salmon stocks. By Mike Rego August...
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,...
Water resource tips in a heatwave
WATER resource is something that is always on our minds at Westcountry Rivers Trust. For others, given we are fortunate to have water on tap, it may not be on their radar, but as we face a heatwave, and potential droughts, even here in the UK, it’s worth spending a...
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...