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South East Fisheries and Biodiversity Newsletter October 2011 Adur & Ouse Pilot Catchment, SOUTH EAST Working together to improve the Adur FISHERIES AND BIODIVERSITY and Ouse catchment - Solent and South Downs NEWSLETTER Defra have appointed the Environment Agency to Eels on the move - Solent and South lead on ten catchment pilots across the country – Downs aimed at exploring better ways to engage with people and organisations to help improve the water environment. The Adur and Ouse is one of these pilots. The Adur and Ouse catchment, an area of 980 square kilometres, is well known for both its urbanised coast and the South Downs National Park. It includes the city of Brighton and Hove We are embarking on some exciting research and the port areas of Newhaven and Shoreham. with Southampton University into eel and elver Within the catchment, there are 48 surface water migration over crump weirs and through culverts. bodies, 2 SSSI ditches, 1 lake, 7 groundwater Initial experiments have already taken place bodies, 2 estuaries and 1 coastal waterbody. using the University's unique flume tank facility. Research will explore attractant flows, swimming Although the Environment Agency is lead on the capability & temperature effects of eel and elver pilot, making the Adur and Ouse better can only passage through the flume. Initial results have be achieved if many people and organisations proved to be extremely interesting. Once come together to tackle the problems collectively. experiments have been completed, the results will be published. Within this pilot catchment we are already starting from good foundations of partnership working and engagement, having completed catchment For more information, contact [email protected] workshops in 2008/9 during the development of the first South East River Basin Management Plan. www.fishactive.com up and running – Solent and South Downs For the Adur & Ouse we hope to achieve more for the catchment by working with others to deliver a better understanding of the problems the water environment faces, a clear plan of action to deliver more locally and a shared long term vision for future action. Want to get involved? Any person or organisation with an interest in their local environment can make a difference. If you would like to be involved in any Try it: http://www.fishactive.com way please contact Catherine Fuller on 01903 832309 or catherine.fuller@environment- agency.gov.uk Report by Environment Agency South East 1 Editor: Lawrence Talks, Strategic Fisheries Specialist Visit our website for up to date news at: www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news Angling for everyone – West Thames The local community at Goldsworth Park near Woking, recently organised with our support a fabulous angling day for people to try angling and learn about wetland wildlife. This event followed a collaborative project that delivered habitat and access improvements to the lake that we funded. Completed fishing platforms 2 years later. Dense reedbed habitat now supports diverse flora and fauna, which has delivered an enhanced landscape for the local community For more: john.sutton@environment- agency.gov.uk £500,000 face lift for Fobney Island – West Thames Bracknell Mill Pond Enhancement Project – Collaboration EA West Thames Water/Bracknell Town Council/Bracknell Herons Angling Society Platforms under construction. Note existing bare concrete banks Report by Environment Agency South East 2 Editor: Lawrence Talks, Strategic Fisheries Specialist Visit our website for up to date news at: www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news Fobney Island, in Reading is being transformed Enforcement, illegally set nets – Kent into a wetland haven for nature thanks to a and South London £500,000 facelift. 6 unauthorised fyke nets have recently been The project will see the island turned into a rich seized from the Medway estuary near Snodland. new wetland and wildflower hay-meadow habitat. They seemed to have been abandoned, as they The site is expected to attract a vast array of were full of trash, but they were still taking eels. wildlife, including birds, bats, water voles, and They were professional nets that had been well otters. These works, together with river set, possibly from the shore, using stakes rather restoration on the River Kennet, will make the than anchors. island a more enjoyable place for people to visit, especially for bird watchers and anglers. The Environment Agency has joined forces with Reading Borough Council, Thames Water and the Thames Rivers Restoration Trust to carry out the work. For more: john.sutton@environment- agency.gov.uk Preventing the spread of a SVC - West Thames Fisheries staff collaborated with colleagues from We also found a jury rigged net hanging off of CEFAS to prevent the spread of the notifiable fish some scaffolding, the scaffolders denied any disease Spring Viraemia of Carp (SVC). This was knowledge of it, but as it was made out of the the first outbreak of SVC in Great Britain since same material as their scaffold netting and 2007. Our status as an SVC free zone was weighted using scaffold clamps that claim was confirmed by the EU last year. To protect this rather unlikely. status it was necessary to destroy all fish on the site and drain and disinfect 3 lakes using We removed the nets to prevent any further quicklime. Seine netting and electofishing were environmental impact. used to capture at total of 1.6 tonnes of fish which were humanely destroyed and safely For info. russell.robson@environment- disposed of off site. We communicated with local agency.gov.uk fishery owners and angling clubs about the outbreak and advised on biosecurity measures. Finchampstead cubs go fishing at Kings Pond – West Thames Thanks to Farnham Angling Society’s support, eight cubs from 1st Finchampstead Scout Group had a fantastic day fishing on Kings Pond. For more: john.sutton@environment- agency.gov.uk Report by Environment Agency South East 3 Editor: Lawrence Talks, Strategic Fisheries Specialist Visit our website for up to date news at: www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news Most of the boys (aged 8 to 10) had never been Hillingdon, Anglers from the CVAC, the Angling fishing before. Ian Gray, the Secretary of Trust and the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Farnham Angling Society made the day possible Wildlife Trust. It is hoped that a combined with the support of the Environment Agency. We approach using all available techniques, supplied whips and pole float rigs, bank sticks contractors and volunteers, will be successful in and ‘Fishing Introduction Packs’. managing this problem. Many thanks to Les Weber for allowing us to host the workshop at Angling Projects. Farnham Angling Society provided the venue, pellets and groundbait, landing net handles and some terminal gear for the cubs to practise making up their own float rigs for the future. Dormers Well Angling Enhancement – NE Thames Angling access improvement works have been completed at Dormers Well Fishery in Ealing. Eight new platforms have improved conditions for members of AEC Angling Society and twenty metres of bank stabilistation with marginal planting will help fish survival and juvenile recruitment. Some protection for fish from cormorant predation has been provided by using floating reed rafts . The project was managed by London Borough of Ealing, with a £10K contribution from the EA and £2k from AEC ‘Very many thanks to Ian Gray and Farnham Angling Society. Further works will included more Angling Society and Adrian Bicknell at the marginal planting, island creation. Fisheries Environment Agency for sponsoring this event Officer Neil Winter said “ This is a great example that we will remember for a very long time to of a collaborative urban angling project with 3 come’, said EAS. different organisations coming together to deliver benefits for angling“. For more: adrian.bicknell@environment- agency.gov.uk River Colne Floating Pennywort Workshop – NE Thames Floating Pennywort has become a serious problem on the River Colne in Hertfordshire. Approximately £50K of funding has been obtained to help tackle the problem. A workshop organised by the Colne Valley Angling Consultative (CVAC) and ourselves on the invasive menace was held earlier in the year, with representation from the London Borough of Report by Environment Agency South East 4 Editor: Lawrence Talks, Strategic Fisheries Specialist Visit our website for up to date news at: www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news Getting to grips with eels and a Crayfish tagging programme – NE definitive estimate of silver eel Thames escapement – NE Thames The Thames North East Fisheries Team is undertaking an investigation to aid the assessment of compliance with the silver eel escapement target set by the European Eel Regulation (Council Regulation 1100/2007). A paucity of robust silver eel data led to yellow eel data being used as a proxy to estimate silver eel escapement during the development of Eel Management Plans that were published in 2010. Virile (left) and signal (right) crayfish Virile crayfish Orconectes virilise have been Throughout the summer, electro fishing surveys present in the River Lee since the early 2000s have been conducted on the River Ash in where it was found in a small semi-connected Middlesex to ascertain the yellow eel population. pond in Enfield. Since this time the species has This data will then be compared against silver eel spread through 15km of canal and a similar escapement data that is currently being collected. amount of connected streams and distributaries. The species is indigenous to southern Canada, The aim of the investigation is to identify the ratio however it is found as an non-native invasive of yellow eels to silver eels. This ratio may then species in both Holland and in the River Lee in be applied to other yellow eel datasets to provide South-East England. Little is understood about a definitive estimate of silver eel escapement.
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