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The 2025 Angling Season Wrap-Up

The 2025 Angling Season Wrap-Up

by | Oct 29, 2025

As the 2025 angling season draws to a close, anglers across the Westcountry are packing up their gear and submitting catch reports in their dozens. With over 1,000 anglers casting through the Fish Pass app this year, the Westcountry Rivers Trust angling team has...
2025 Electrofishing season

2025 Electrofishing season

by | 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...
The Fading Away of Westcountry salmon

The Fading Away of Westcountry salmon

by | Oct 30, 2024

by Dr Dan Osmond You might expect the disappearance of an endangered species to be marked with public outcry, the fear of irrevocable loss, the richness of our environment diminished. Yet there is a species dangerously close to quietly disappearing in the Westcountry...
The Fading Away of Westcountry salmon

IUCN Red Listing of the Atlantic Salmon by Dr Will Darwall

by | Feb 9, 2024

In December 2023, the Atlantic salmon was classified by the IUCN as ‘Near Threatened’ globally and as ‘Endangered’ within Great Britain. Join our trustee, Dr Will Darwall, the lead author on this assessment, as he explains everything you ever...
The Fading Away of Westcountry salmon

Atlantic salmon now Near Threatened on IUCN Red List

by | Dec 11, 2023

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has reclassified the global Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) population as near threatened in its latest species reassessment. At the Trust, we are continuing to work hard to support Atlantic salmon stock in the region, with the...