March 2013 Newsletter
Mar13 DCRT Newsletter
Fishing For Change
Don Catchment Rivers Trust has secured funding through The Big Lottery Fund to fund a project worth £10,000. This project will enable important work to be carried out in the rivers and streams in the lower Don catchment in line with their membership of a new partnership initiative in this area called Revival. The money […]
Trust support for effort to save the Don Catchment’s white-clawed crayfish
The DCRT has agreed to support local group Sheffield Action Crayfish’s work to save the remaining white-clawed crayfish in the Don Catchment. White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) are the only native species of crayfish in the Britsh Isles, which was formerly a stronghold of the species. Unfortunately the species is being wiped out across its range […]
Loxley Weirs Meeting
We had a good turn-out of interested parties at the consultation meeting on 15th January. The questions and answers from the evening are here answers to consultation meeting questions
Loxley Weirs Consultation
Invitation to Loxley Weirs Consultation Venue: St Polycarp’s Church, Wisewood Lane, Sheffield S6 4WA Date & Time: Tuesday 15th January at 7:30pm Most of the weirs in the Don Catchment are part of the legacy of industrial activity in the region. While they can provide aesthetic and cultural interest, unfortunately they can also pose an […]
Award for Trustees
David Rowley and Chris Firth have won an award for services to Fisheries and the Environment at the Rivers Trust Autumn Conference in Newcastle. The award recognises all the hard work and effort that David and Chris have put in to the Rivers Trust over the years especially their recent work on the River Don […]
Our first fish pass is complete!
As of Friday 2nd November, the Larinier fish pass on Hadfields Weir at Meadowhall is up and running. The top sandbags were removed this morning and the water is flowing nicely over the baffles and the eel pass. For more information about the project and our sponsors see our Projects pages
Fish pass almost complete!
By Friday 2nd November 2012 the fish pass on Hadfield Weir at Meadowhall will be complete, thanks to the efforts of Chris Hanley and his team at A Torn Construction. The walls and baffles are now in place with the infill to the weir being completed and the eel pass and debris boom being completed […]
