Fish Rescue with the Canal & River Trust
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2024
- Engineering work was being carried out on the Birmingham canal at Wolverhampton. So the Canal & River trust drained the Birmingham canal in a section between two locks. They then carried out a fish rescue. They used electricity Electro fishing to stun the fish and then gather them in nets and move them to a safe area of the canal. We see a few fish. Perch, Roach and an Eel. We speak to a fisheries expert from the canal and River trust and learn some fascinating fishy facts about Eels and canal fish in general. When lock gates are being replaced on Britains canal network parts of the canal have to be closed and drained. This is a fascinating time as we get to see a drained canal. Plus we see the fish wildlife living in the canal.
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Hi Martin thanks for another great vid, 100% off-topic but I've noticed, also in your video, moss is taking over the world this year!
Great to see you down my neck of the woods, and promoting the wonderful work the canal and river trust does.
Thanks Martin. From Canada. I was chief engineer at the RN Diesel Engine Co Ltd. and we made some of the Narrow Boat engines. The posh ones that cost a lot of money.
Very interesting! Lots of nice specimens too! I too am blown away about how far the eel's travel!
Absolutely interesting vlog, thank you all (Martin, Roy & John) for filming & presenting. I did not realise that the eel population was dwindling.
I have also learnt something from you today.
Love fishing for river pike in the irwell. There's some monsters around the old Kearsley power station site.
Welcome to West Midlands Martin my area of canals I have worked on the Wolverhampton 21 many times glad you’re enjoying it. I might even meet you one day !
Very interesting video. Big thank you Martin & Roy 😀👍
A great video, Martin! God is watching this from up above. Cheers Martin and the conservation crew! 😊😊
Fascinating stuff...! Eeels are magic....
I know it was out of your comfort zone but that worked well in explaining what was happening and the back story e.g. the eels. Thank you and for showing what wonderful work the Trust do
Fantastic stuff there Martin, John was quite the nice fellow to talk with and answer your questions, very informative. Thanks for taking us along.
Thank you 👍
So informative. Loved seeing the eel. I learned so much. Many thanks, missed James.
Outstanding video, thanks Martin & Roy! So happy to see things DONE RIGHT in regard to Nature. Cheers from New York. "I could never hurt an animal" Same.
Great video Martin / Roy, very enjoyable, learnt a bit to, think the canal trust does a great job, all helps promoted by your video too, love the music by Dean, more please more,
I was once doing some river sampling with a group of students in the River Conwy in North Wales when this huge Eel swam past. First and only time I've ever seen one.
Big pike will eat adult ducks, moorhens and coots. I have seen pike take duck and moorhens while fishing.
It's the reason a lot of wildlife has so many young. It's all about increasing the chance of survival against top predators like Pike.
Fantastic video! The Canal Trust is doing some great work. Thank you for the video!
Wow. Martin you have excelled yourself here. What a superb educational video. This should be shown in schools etc. absolutely brilliant. The info about the eel quite worrying. Thank you for bringing all this info to our attention. A masterpiece.
Never knew about giving fish elecric shocks to temporarily put them out for a short while then restore them to new waters in the canal. It's so interesting to see how they're caught with those men with the nets doing it. The man you interviewed certainly knows about what to do with the fish and the different kinds there are in the canals. It was good to see the new lock gates ready for installing, as well. Well your trip with Roy to Wolverhampton was well worth it, to provide us with another one of your fine videos. Thank you Martin, nice one.
Another great video from yourself. I would struggle wading about in the mud rescuing fish. A few months ago here in Slovenia we had 48 hours of torrential rain. There were numerous landslides, some only recently cleared and hillsides adjacent to roads stabilized. In one spot on our local side roads a hillside torrent deposited 18 inches to 24 inches or so of mud onto the tarmac surface. I did not realize this and got stuck in the middle when trying to walk through it. Finished up crawling out on hands and knees to escape.
Fascinating Martin.
Thank you so much for your time and efforts to produce your vlog on this subject.
As a boater myself I know how costly and difficult the canal network is to maintain.
Personally I would want to dredge the pound when its empty. That is not done for some reason.
Keep safe warm dry and virus free.
Thanks again Martin. Great video. Best regards from Chicago
Very interesting video
Thank you 👏
That was again a very interesting and educative one. Thumbs up & Thanks for sharing !
Loved fishing for Northern Pikes! Back in the 70's we were boat fishing by the lily pads on a small lake in Minnesota when a family of ducks swam by, there was an explosion in the water about 20 feet away where the ducks were at and they scattered like mad. afterwards I counted the ducklings and one was missing...Northern pike got it! We would catch northerns on that lake ranging from 5 to 15 pounds all the time. Apex predator there.
Excellent video, John was great to listen to and his experience and knowledge came across superbly. You always seem to find great people to compliment your videos Martin. 👍
Good video Martin. I have learned a few things and that makes it a good day.
What's the fastest fish in the canal ?
A Motor-Pike....
I'll get me coat 😂
For heaven’s hake
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That joke made me fall off my perch
I’ll ring you a taxi
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Great Video, as an Angler myself, i never knew about the Eel migrations.. Wow, that is fantastic fact!
One thing that might help with the Zander population is that they are very good to eat.
When I first went along my local cut (canal) in Birmingham in the 1960s it was filthy and polluted as hell, no fish ! That slowly improved over the years, now I'm still amazed that there are fish in it !
More from John.. Please. He was very knowledgeable and good at explaining
Hi Martin, Great video really enjoyed watching👌👌
How an earth does an eel get back to the Sargasso Sea from Wolverhampton? How many locks must there be?
No trap doors there I guess😮
Thanks to the canal trust for inviting you down. Well done!!
The lock gates and the paddle are not a 100% seal and an eel can wriggle through very small gaps. Also most locks have a bypass channel to cope with heavy rain / flooding. Lastly eels can survive out of water and can make their way over damp grass/ meadows. (do'nt tell Martin)
@@daviddearden6372 Thanks David!! if it was me I'd go the wrong way and end up in the Rochdale canal waiting for the trapdoor to open. Making there way over damp grass, well I won't tell him if you don't!!
Fascinating as always guys. Very good work those canal and river trust guys do 👍
That was really interesting Martin, I've always been uneasy about pike since reading Beatrix Potters The Tale Of Jeremy Fisher.
That was very interesting, Martin
It's good to be afraid of Pike they have razor sharp teeth. The info on Eels was very interesting.
Another great video Martin. One fishy character missing though, James….. Wolverhampton to far for him? 😁
Top of a lock gate is a balance beam
Fantastically interesting video - John from was a mine of information on the canal and its inhabitants. Thank you for showing this vital, but rarely seen aspect of the canals.
Wow the colours on some of those fish are amazing ❤thank u for a very interesting and enjoyable video 😊
That was fascinating, thanks Martin.
And thanks, too, to John and the people like him who try to keep our waterways healthy.
Excellent video Martin, very interesting, learnt a lot , thanks very much 😎👍
When they talk about invasive species.I've seen Koi carp and goldfish in Rochdale canal where they have been dumped.Goldfish grow to quite a size as do Koi and both being carp species they can have a devastating effect on the local fish.Another problem that I have seen around Failsworth near the dog training centre was lily pads.They were dumped too.They grow very quickly covering the water surface limiting the light and oxygen into the water
Thanks guys for going all the way to Wolverhampton for this one. Really interesting and informative. Loved it !
Well! You learn something new every day! Very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Elaine
Thanks for that Martin. I've worked for the Trust for just over a year and I haven't even had chance to see a fish rescue yet!
Yes ! Loved this one Martin .
Caught a few pike , my favourite fish . Personal beat 24 lb 6 oz from lower Roddleworth reservoir near Blackburn. Best from a canal was about 8 lb but Alex my son has caught an 11 1/2 pounder from behind Rufford old hall on the Rufford arm of the Leeds Liverpool .
That was s a very Bonny perch there too 🐠🐟🎣🧱👍🏼
wonderful, I like watching canal based videos, whether its people living on the canal or the heavy infrastructure involved.
Thanks for that video, Martin, fascinating!
Really interesting, especially to learn that a pike will attack an adult bird, ducks etc. Also, to learn just how endangered the eel is, that was somewhat surprising. Eels were caught by poachers back in the day and the rivers and streams were full of them.
A fascinating watch Martin, thanks.
Brilliant video Martin!
Thanks to everybody involved.👍🙂
Such an educational video.. really enjoyed it thanks guys❤
Really interesting Martin, I learned quite a bit there as I don't know much about fish.🐟
Great video Martin. Thanks! That's my weekly edutainment sorted :) Canals and trains, the gifts that never end.
It just keeps getting better Martin this is so full of knowledge you have to look very hard to find on the mainstream media. Great footage and editing. And you never stopped for a brew.
No brew today, definitely in the next one
Nice one Martin. Some beautiful Perch coming out there. But what surprised me more than anything, was the fact that Eels are more endangered than Pandas, and Pandas are that lazy they can’t be arsed to well, pro create let’s say haha! So I was surprised!
Being an Angler myself, that was a great to watch. My pet hate is eels. I can't stand them ugly, slimy things. Now Pike, on the other hand, what a fish,love catching them. Yet again, another great video cheers Martin and the crew 👍
Cheers Jeff
Brilliant, thank you Martin and Roy, and thank you John/CRT for doing your best too.
Thanks Simon
Interesting video, and what about the eels?! Never knew that. Also Pike's eating ducks! Where was James, getting a pan of chips on?
Pike - the stuff of legend. When I was a kid there was a mythical monster pike in just about every body of water. I even knew a lad who reckoned he'd been attacked by one!
Martin, Is it okey to fish from any of the canals, if so is a permit required? How long will the new lock gates last? Is the Manchester Town Hall's restoration finished yet? Sorry for the questions but that how we learn, where I live there are no canals just earthquakes...... Martin this was quite a different watch but very enjoyable and educational -- Thanks.
I read that Manchester Town Hall won't open again until 25 possibly 26.
Hi Martin and Roy. You are quite a bit away from home in this one and it's a nice and worthwhile departure from your usual videos, and heartening to know that the majority of fish come to no permanent harm. I can just imagine the fish all thinking 'what the hell happened there'? as they come round. That's a shocking fact about eels being endangered. And those pike are nasty so and so's aren't they? John, the Canal and River Trust guy really knew his stuff and was really enthusiastic about his subject. Great video.
Wolverhampton, West Midlands, Land of my fathers and youth.!
Takes me back to the late 1950's, we went down the towpath from Wolverhampton station to get to the WR engine shed train spotting, it was located just before were you filmed. On the way we helped the barges opening and closing the lock gates, once at the sheds there was a hole in the fence to get into the sheds.
Hi Martin, very good to also have the care of fish during the renovation in the canals.🦈🦈
This is a really interesting video, well produced. I say that as someone who is not all that interested in fish. Great Work. 😀😀
Fascinating stuff Martin. Yet another great video, thanks so much for this , the canal and river trust do so much 👏
Thanks. Martin And All.👍
Heron's are often along this stretch of canal. @Martin I hope you got to see the old remains of the stream train turn table in park behind you along with the platform remains.
The eel was very cool. I never knew those facts either.
❤ your work. A most interesting video thanks mate 👍
Martin, thanks as always for sharing your wonderful videos.
Good call Martin, electrocuting fish is an ok way of slowin them down enough to catch. David from Cruising the cut, got a tour of where CRT make the gates and how they make them. Bludy amazing. Your right, those Pike look stressed, like they have a perpetually hard day, everyday. This bloke John, knows his stuff. Thanks Martin and Roy, that was a bludy ep. Thanks m8s, stay vertical Eh!
Great video and lovely to see people caring about the environment . Good job the water companies were not doing that job. They would have poisoned the fish and chucked them on the bank just to save a few quid.
Martin the pictures you put up are of Conger eels that live in the see with the British record weight of 133lb 4oz ! The ones found in canals and such are a completetly different species with the record weight in the uk of just over 11lb !!
Cheers
Something different and really interesting 👍🏼
Truly amazing, thanks Martin, 😊😊.
You're not soft Martin, there is no logic to our various fears.... Earwigs are one of mine!
Verg interesting video Martin. I'm with you on the eels although i couldn't fish or kill anything either. Very knowledgeable guy. Was he a volunteer or employee ? Sorry if you said, i must have missed it.
thanks for another great Vlog, you should come down a little more south east of Wolverhampton, into the proper Black Country :)
Very nice, Martin and company! How interesting was thi?. Thanks for all your hard work and the interesting array of stories. I'm from Colorado, USA. Colorado "canals" are irrigation ditches. Not quite as interesting.
The fish have better rights to clean water than we do 😂 👍
Plenty of eels in Bunker in Warrington! Ask Roy, he'll know! 👍
Really interesting video.
informative & interesting!
Great video
Good one Martin, very interesting very watchable.
Nice one fellas 👍
Now it may seem a little harsh to stun the fish but it's actually not enough to actually hurt them and they do recover and as we all know water is a great conductor of electricity fish actually come into contact with small allowance of electricity during their lifespan I guess I use the word actually a lot! I'm from California and it just kind of happens 😅
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Thank you Martin. Amazing information about the Conger Eels. I live in America, but feel like I would be right at home in Manchester and the nearby areas you explore thanks to your excellent videos. Keep up the great work!
Great video guys, I am an angler also memer of the canal.
Gafiing pike on the dead stretch, from junction liocks ,Perch, roach tench,,the odd .mirror carp ,past the rose over the river irk the iron donger X rooby ❤
Those fish must have thought they had some crazy werid dream 😂
Interesting to note that the signal crayfish was imported by the British government in the 1970’s to compete against the Scandinavian crayfish market.
That was a lovely video.
Thank you
Having caught an eel in the Shropshire canal, I can vouch for how wriggly they are. Also caught an old boot and a bike, typical canal trappings 😂
Brilliant.