Water loving Plymouth MP supports charity’s work restoring city’s streams
PLYMOUTH’s water loving MP Luke Pollard joined Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) on Friday, 28 January, to see how the charity is improving the health of the city’s streams. The trust’s three-year Plymouth River Keepers (PRK) project brings together communities,...
Floundering on the Hayle
Our Head of Fisheries Dr. Bruce Stockley notes a rather unusual find on a river research trip. While surveying the River Hayle for some very special heavy metal trout, we found a flounder as big as your hand. It’s always a surprise to find a sea fish in a river...
A fish swam past…
Our Head of Fisheries Dr. Bruce Stockley reflects on life returning to a river following a weir removal. While watching a river in July, a small fish swam past me. Its movements were fast, nervous and darting. Not unexpected you’d think, but I was witnessing...
Historic painting helps inspire 50 year vision for carbon and nature rich landscape at Devon Estate
The National Trust is taking inspiration from a 19th Century painting of the Killerton Estate in Devon to help create a 50 year vision for the landscape boosting its ability to store carbon by improving and expanding habitats and creating areas rich in wildlife. The...