17 Jul 2025
Thousands of fish will benefit from improved access to vital habitats following the installation of a new fish pass in Mildenhall and at Newby Bridge Weir. A new £1.2 million fish pass on the River Lark in Mildenhall improves migration for trout, eels, and coarse fish. Separately, work is underway to replace an outdated eel […]
07 Jul 2022
Bowston is the largest river barrier removal planned for the UK this year and will allow fish and other species to move more freely, the Guardian has reported. Nearly 150 years after it was built for a paper mill, work has begun to demolish a 3-metre-high weir in Cumbria as part of nationwide efforts to improve biodiversity […]
06 Mar 2019
The Wild Trout Trust (www.wildtrout.org) has been working with partners on the River Dove and its tributaries to remove over fifty weirs in 2017-2018. The River Dove forms the boundary between the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire in central England. The weir removals took place at three locations within the catchment: “Letting the Dove Flow” […]