WMN Comment: Helping fish swim Upstream
To celebrate World Fish Migration Day, Adrian Dowding talks to the Western Morning News about our work on the Taw catchment. Over the last six years a huge amount of my time and energy has been spent removing barriers to migrating fish in the River Taw. This has...
The Chemcatchers are in!
This week we have been out and about with South West Water deploying ChemcatchersTM passive samplers across our catchments as part of our Upstream Thinking project. We have developed this exciting new technology in conjunction with SWW, the University of...
Sniffing out weirs….
On Monday 11th April 2016 a number of WRT fisheries staff plus Will Pelham, a Masters student form Plymouth University, undertook some in-house fish passage assessment training to help share good practice and develop their skills further. This training was related to...
Pinpoint training for the next generation
Westcountry Rivers Trust in association with the Rivers Trust and Catchment Sensitive Farming have delivered two PinPoint Training sessions in the South West. Both sessions were aimed at the next generation of farmers and land managers focussing on students at Duchy...
Fowey River farms offered safe pesticide disposal
The Westcountry Rivers Trust is giving farms in the River Fowey catchment a safe and confidential way to get rid of banned pesticides. The amnesty, which will run from 1st to 31st May, will allow farmers to get rid of pesticides, which now carry penalties, in a safe...
Riverfly is coming to Cornwall!
As part of the process of setting up a Riverfly Hub for Cornwall, Ben Fitch visited us to train WRT staff members to become Riverfly monitors. Some members of staff where further trained to become trainers, enabling the creation of a Cornwall based Riverfly Training...