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...
Treescapes for Riverscapes
Rivers and watercourses in Devon and Cornwall are part of plan to create thousands of hectares of new woodland in England to improve water quality and biodiversity. Forestry Minister Lord Goldsmith announced today (Saturday 25 September) the start of a new tree...
The State of Our Rivers Report
Our national body the Rivers Trust has today published its State of Our Rivers Report. This provides people in England with details to help them understand the health of their river like never before, on both a national and local scale. The report gives one clear...