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The mission statement of the Trust is to conserve, protect, rehabilitate and improve the Rivers Don, Dearne and Rother and the associated non-tidal and tidal systems that might influence their fauna, flora, water quality and hydrology. Beyond this we aim to promote these rivers as assets that enrich people’s lives, whether through experience of their […]
Geocaching is a fun, free way to explore the River Don. Currently Salmon cannot get to their historic spawning grounds in Sheffield because of weirs built during the industrial revolution. ‘Living Heritage of the River Don’ will see Salmon return to the river, but in the mean time could you help our track-able geocache Salmon […]
Atlantic salmon are returning to the River Don following an absence of around 150 years, with the leaping fish now being seen at Aldwarke weir on the eastern edge of urban Rotherham. Extraordinary footage capturing the fish’s efforts to jump the weir was taken by 18 year old Oscar Downing, whose father, Anthony, is an […]
Fantastic news! The Heritage Lottery Fund have granted us £1.2million towards our Living Heritage of the River Don project. Our project will help fish move up the River Don by creating fish passage solutions on the weirs which currently obstruct them. This will allow salmonid species to get as far as Sheffield for the first time in 200 years. […]
DCRT have been awarded £154,000 funding from the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council for the Dearne Connectivity Project. After the fantastic recent news about a juvenile salmon being found in the Dearne for the first time in almost 200 years, our project will help fish move more freely in the Dearne and […]
Good news for the River Don in the last few weeks – not only did the Environment Agency teams find a juvenile Salmon in the Dearne on a regular survey but they also found two Sea Lamprey in the Don at Crimpsall on another regular survey. The presence of both species is an indicator of […]
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Children from Waverley Primary and Hexthorpe Primary released thousands of elvers into Sprotbrough Flash yesterday on a glorious sunny morning. Each child had the opportunity to release around 100 in to the water, most choosing to let the eels run through their hands! After hand cleaning, they all had a chance to try smoked eel […]
Pupils at Wath Central Primary school are looking after a tank of eels and they have been producing some great work which is in the school corridor for everyone to see (and learn things from!)
