A recent article, published in The Guardian, says the proliferation of weirs, dams and culverts is now creating a threat to wildlife. The Swansea University-led project called Amber (Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers), aims to find ways to halt the fragmentation of European rivers and the dangerous isolation of their habitats. “Flowing rivers […]
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The Times has run the article below raising the concerns of NGOs on the impact of the cooling water intakes on fish populations in the Severn estuary. There is a consultation underway – nearly closed – on this issue – time to comment! Bob Earll ‘Nuclear power plant will suck fish to their deaths’ The […]
BBC Salmon farming giant Mowi has offered to close two “contentious” Scottish sea loch sites in exchange for permission to relocate them to offshore waters. Mowi said it had identified its sites at Loch Ewe and Loch Duich as “candidates for relocation”. It also cited their proximity to sensitive wild salmonid habitats as reasons for […]
Dustin Marshall et al: Abstract Marine protected areas (MPAs) are important tools for managing marine ecosystems. MPAs are expected to replenish nearby exploited populations through the natural dispersal of young, but the models that make these predictions rely on assumptions that have recently been demonstrated to be incorrect for most species of fish. A meta‐analysis […]
£500k to tip the balance of the Broads Norfolk Wildlife Trust ‘Two of the largest Broads in Norfolk will have their underwater ecology ‘manipulated’ to restore their clear water and in turn the water plants that were once commonplace across Broadland’s waterways. Norfolk Wildlife Trust has received almost half a million pounds for its ambitious project […]
The entrainment and capture of fish on screens for cooling water intakes of power stations is relatively well understood. The status of many migratory fish stocks that use estuaries are in many regions under threat. One would have thought that any devices that mitigated against unwanted bycatch of fish by cooling intakes would have been […]
Environment Agency ‘We are consulting on future close season arrangements for coarse fishing on English rivers. The current coarse fishing close season on rivers, some canals and some stillwaters runs from 15 March to 15 June. There is no close season on most canals and most stillwaters. We want to better understand the risks and […]