Celebrating our 25th Anniversary year…with chutney
What an exciting start to our 25th anniversary year as food producer Otter Vale chooses to support us as part of their own 40th year in business celebration.For every jar and tub of Devon Chutney you buy this year, they will share a donation between us and Devon Air...
Woodlands – Water – Fisheries Workshop
Reflecting on the wooded nature of the Walkham Catchment, together with its importance as a salmonid fishery and Natural Flood Management (NFM), we held a woodlands, water and fisheries workshop to engage and bring together all relevant stakeholders to exchange...
Water For Growth: Habitat Work
Removal of barriers to fish migration forms the greatest part of Water For Growth (W4G) but getting fish up to poor spawning grounds or unhealthy juvenile habitat would be a wasted effort so a program of rehabilitation of these areas has been employed to...
Fish Pass: our innovative new angling app
The funding we received to improve fish passage and salmonid habitat was balanced with our aim to get more people fishing. If our work on weirs and the rivers can increase stocks of fish, then bringing a greater number of anglers to experience the fishing will bring...
Water for Growth: Barriers to Migration
Rivers across the world have long been exploited for powering industry, from 19th and 20th century mills to more modern hydroelectric generation. Weirs were built to impound an artificial and consistent head of water, allowing abstracted flows to feed the...
Soaking it up with SPONGE2020
They say time flies when you are having fun. Well, time flies especially fast when you are having fun delivering a multi-year EU project! We are halfway through SPONGE 2020, as the midterm conference that will be held in Southend in September shows. In the past two...