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News: elvers on the move
June 2nd 2012
Some really good news on the Elvers Pass at Forge Weir: the electronic elvers counter has detected the following numbers of elvers using the elvers pass to move up stream, past the obstruction weir.Date Number of Elvers
24/05/2012 3
25/05/2012 4
26/05/2012 0
27/05/2012 4
28/05/2012 6
29/05/2012 48
30/05/2012 168
31/05/2012 151
Total to date 384 Elvers detected moving up stream.
Note that the total for the 2011 season last year was only 38 Elvers!
News flash!: first springer salmon of the year
April 2012
Good news! On 24th April 2012 the first springer salmon of the year was caught in the trap at Forge Weir, Halton. Hopefully many more will be working their way up the Lune. Our thanks go to Andy Croft and the Environment Agency for the report.
Catchment Sensitive Farming
March 2012
Opportunities for farmers in the Lower Lune
The Lower Lune has just been added to the Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) project – a Defra funded campaign run by Natural England and the Environment Agency. The project’s purpose is to help clean up the water at Morecambe Bay and Heysham by giving local farmers free one-to-one or group training, advice and capital grant funding to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture. (more…)
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