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The 3 year study began at the fishery this week, with the restocking of 200 2-year-old barbel.
Anglers at the historic Throop fishery near Hurn, Bournemouth, had reported a decline in barbel catches and the Angling Association approached the Environment Agency for help in finding the cause of the fall in numbers. Significant habitat improvements have been made at the fishery over previous years to improve spawning areas and juvenile and adult habitat after dredging in the 1970s. The juvenile barbel, reared at the Environment Agency’s National Coarse Fish Farm in Calverton, near Nottingham, have been tagged with passive electronic tags, similar to those used to chip dogs and cats. These chips are individual to the fish and will hopefully last for the entire lifetime of the fish. Environment Agency Fisheries Officer Jim Allan, said: Using pit tags in this way gives us a great opportunity to monitor the barbel movements over a number of years, and give input back to the club. Anglers can scan the fish they catch and track their movement. The data will provide valuable information on the validity of stocking and longer term information on growth rates and survival.
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In summer 2022, Defra announced the 22 projects chosen for the first round of Landscape Recovery.
Landscape Recovery supports landowners and managers to take a large-scale, long-term approach to producing environmental and climate goods on their land. The 22 projects represent hundreds of farmers and landowners working together. They will be awarded a share of around £12 million in development grants over the next 2 years to help them finalise their delivery plans to restore rivers, boost biodiversity and much more. The Wareham Arc project is a partnership of 25 farmers, estates, businesses, conservation charities and private individuals covering around 3,800 hectares of land from Wild Woodbury in the northwest to Poole Harbour in the southeast. The partners will decide on what interventions and changes will be implemented in the next 2 years with the broad aims of connecting habitats, de-intensifying land use and restoring rivers across the catchment to improve water quality flowing into Poole Harbour. |
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