Giving Wild Trout A Future!
Talk today: Quick introduction to the WTT and its work Case Study WTT habitat work and river flies
Our Mission We are a charity dedicated to: The conservation of wild trout in Britain and Ireland through protection and restoration of their habitats
Minimum Bureaucracy The Wild Trout Trust Maximum Delivery! Chairman Trustees Executive Council 6 Paid staff: Director 2 Conservation Officers Urban project officer Administrator (part time) Funding / Publicity Officer (part time)
Our Work Practical Advice helping people to help themselves Funding Support Open Days Projects Conservation Award R&D Events & Publications
Advisory Visit and Report Wild Trout Survival Guide, Chalkstream / Upland/ Urban Habitat Manuals Detailed project proposal design, consents Practical Visit Five steps to Habitat Heaven Seedcorn funding, Rods for Conservation
AV Report -Fishery features -Issues & bottlenecks -Habitat improvement potential -What NOT to do! -Leads on to more detailed project proposal & consent applications
Further Guidance
Project proposals and designs
Practical Visit Demonstrates techniques Hands-on experience Materials provided Ideal for clubs using volunteer members for works
River Don (Lancs Calder catchment) Funding (small grants) Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust led WTT and LCC financial support 3K plus RCCT time 4.5 km extra spawning habitat accessible Not beyond reach of clubs with the right support
Case Study
AV Recommendations Spawning Gravels Cattle Drinks Narrowing LWD Mid-Channel Islands Removal of Flood Banks Cinderella Project Further Design and Kick-Start Funding Wild Trout Trust Habitat Advisory Visit to the River Glaven (Norfolk) By REEF Consultancy Services on behalf of the River Glaven Conservation Group May 23 rd 2003
Flood Bank Removal
Habitat work and river flies WTT advisory visits promote the Riverfly Partnership and encourage participation. Recommend measures that help river flies, e.g. large woody debris, riparian zone mgmt, flow/substrate diversity. Good example of this on the River Manifold (Staffs) trib of Dove. Upland character, gritstone geology, problems with bank erosion, intensified livestock farming. Good monitoring of improvement measures fish and invertebrates.
Dr Nick Everall carried out all invertebrate monitoring and analysis Severn Trent Water funded project partnership between STW, WTT and Trent Rivers Trust Study compared test site (woody revetment) with reference site (no treatment), May, June, Aug, Sept 2010
Significantly higher abundance of macroinvertebrates downstream of bank revetment compared to the reference site, in 3 out of the 4 months surveyed.
In all four months surveyed there was a higher EPT richness at the site downstream of fencing and soft woody revetment compared to reference site.
Seasonal malaise habitat works or self-purification??
Three rare mayfly species found Associated only with introduced woody debris Southern Iron Blue Baetis niger (BAP species) Large Summer Mayfly Siphlonurus alternatus Ameletus inopinatus Pictures Dr. Cyril Bennett
If you think WTT can help you get in touch. www.wildtrout.org projects@wildtrout.org Tel. 023 9257 0985
Please join us... The Wild Trout Trust We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity s demands upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a riverkeeper, a steward, a watchman. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we have taken out. Tom McGuane - The Longest Silence (1999)