Festival of Nature – River Restoration Walk
Peter Coleman-Smith reports on this guided walk which was interesting and enjoyable – despite the yellow weather warning!
Peter Coleman-Smith reports on this guided walk which was interesting and enjoyable – despite the yellow weather warning!
Trout in the Trym and SusWot volunteers had a productive river cleaning and balsam pulling session this morning.
Peter Coleman-Smith reports that he took a very interesting river fly sample at Cribbs Causeway yesterday morning.
A Trout in the Trym volunteer helps Westbury Wildlife Park make and install straw eel ropes on two of the weirs on their property.
The latest Combined Sewer Overflow data shows a slight improvement in the Trym in 2024 vs 2023 but there was still 1,328 hours of spilling of untreated waste water.
We are delighted to hear that the petition to ban the export of eels caught in British estuaries to Russia has been successful.
Westbury Wildlife Park recently demonstrated riverfly monitoring to some visitors, showing them what lives in the River Trym.
With our reporting of issues, the Environment Agency continues to investigate silt in Hazel Brook.
Could straw eel ropes – temporary structures draped over weirs to help elvers migrate upstream – help reduce the decline in eel numbers?