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Aim of the Trent Rivers Trust

We aim to protect the environment and diversity of the River Trent and its tributaries and to encourage any improvement in the same by action and research.

Salmon Restoration

To date we have devoted our efforts to one major project which is to establish a self-sustaining population of Atlantic Salmon to the River Trent and its tributaries. This is to be achieved by stocking the river in various and appropriate locations, initially by stocking the River Dove and River Churnet, with any juvenile stage as is deemed appropriate for the time and location. To find ways of getting fish passage over or around obstructions by the construction of fish passes or installing fish ladders. A qualification on the installation of fish ladders is that they should, wherever possible, be appropriate for the use of as many species as possible.

Atlantic Salmon movements will be monitored by the installation of close proximity fish counters and closed circuit television cameras and recording equipment.

This web site is devoted to the story of the Trent Rivers Trust, progress and successes. The site is to inform you of our work and to give you the opportunity to give us your input.


How it was

At the turn of the 18th century the River Trent was one of the great salmon rivers of England supporting a population of many thousands of salmon

Industrial pollution and weir construction during the 19th and 20th Century eliminated the last salmon from the river system.

Since 1985 when investment in sewage treatment improved the water quality and with the demise of a number of coal fired power stations which has reduced water temperatures, various organizations including Severn Trent Water, the National Rivers Authority and the Environment Agency have investigated the feasibility of restoring Salmon to the Trent river system. An extensive investigation into the feasibility of introducing salmon into the River Derwent was commissioned by the Derbyshire County Angling Club.
During the three years from 1998 to 2000 the Environment Agency have introduced nearly 500,000 young Salmon Parr into the River Dove. The survivors of these fish have started returning from their Greenland feeding grounds to breed in the Dove.

The TRENT RIVERS TRUST will carry out on a more formal basis the continued stocking of young fish in the river system and improvements to weirs to overcome obstructions to the passage of returning fish by introducing fish passes in those weirs. It will also promote a number of educational and research projects to study the effectiveness of their efforts.

 
Nelson Mandella

Earth Summit, Johannesburg, 2002

In his first speech to delegates Nelson Mandela said it was "the absence of access to clean water" that was " most stark in the widespread impoverishment of the natural environment"

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