See the below kindly sent to me by Peter Hickman.
Seems it can be done but not here apparently - wonder why.?
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From: Angus Gordon Lennox <acgl@gleco.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 19:38
Subject: River Calder (tributary of the Spey) Video
Dear All,
If you have got a few minutes to watch a couple of videos, I thought you would like a bit of good news about the river and the work the Spey Board and Spey Catchment Initiative, together with others, have been doing. There are lots of other things going on but habitat restoration in the upper reaches of the Spey produces demonstrable benefits and continues apace …. As is shown by this short video about the work done on the Calder. It is similar to the award winning work done on the Allt Lorgy previously.
If it has anything like the result achieved on the Allt Lorgy, where work began in 2012, and there has been a huge increase in juvenile numbers, then there will be much to celebrate. The Allt Lorgy project was innovative and somewhat ground-breaking as it was the first time such an approach had been tried in Scotland. This has been recognised as the project won the UK River Prize 2020 in the “Reach Scale” category. This is a UK-wide annual competition and the Allt Lorgy was selected to be one of three finalists, in competition against a project from Wales undertaken by Natural Resources Wales and a catchment-scale project on the Test & Itchen undertaken the Environment Agency. Here is a link to short video about the Alt Lorgy.
These projects mean more good habitat, more juveniles in the river….. and more smolts going to sea. The benefits are simply demonstrated by the table below which show the parr and fry counts improving enormously in the middle area of the Allt Lorgy project since the work was completed. I think we can expect something similar from the Calder project.
Money well spent, and all positive for the future….
Best wishes
Angus
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