fish pass Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

14 Nov 2024

Country’s largest fish pass opens in Nottinghamshire

From: Scheme opens up River Trent for coarse and migratory fish The Environment Agency’s £12m flagship project in the Colwick Country Park has been officially opened by Chair of the Environment Agency, Alan Lovell. It opens up the River Trent and its tributaries for migratory fish, including salmon, trout and eels, making more habitat accessible […]

27 Oct 2022

New Thames channel reopens river to wildlife in £2m project

News Water

A new project to create a new channel of the River Thames and restore long-lost wildlife habitat has been completed. The 450-metre watercourse in West Oxfordshire bypasses a manmade weir and will enable fish to swim along a 30km stretch of the Thames and spawn for the first time in more than a century. […]

05 May 2022

Improving fish and eel passage on the Bristol Frome

News Water

The Environment Agency has begun work to make it easier for fish and eels to swim up and down the River Frome in Yate, north Bristol. Four weirs on the stretch of river running through Yate are being modified. A small notch is being cut into 3 of the weirs, and eel tiles and baffles […]