I believe that complex habitats are important as well. So lots of surrounding trees and bushes, some fallen into the water, to create lots of eddies, nooks, crannies, etc. Lots of bends and shallows and overhangs. There are lots of chalk stream restoration videos of YT showing great work being done to return rivers back to their original state before man intervened. These will enable the fish to hide from totebal1409’s ‘bad’ fish-eating birds! Dare I say beaver’s could create such a complex and diverse habitat mosaic if appropriate for the area, once there are some trees for them to coppice of course. Thanks for the production 🤩
Its all well and good putting the spotlight on a top tier river like the deveron in Scotland but its the smaller rivers in Wales and England which need the help and funding
What a wonderful, informative film. Well done to Mark, Jim, Dom & all the team. All of us who want to save the Atlantic salmon species should donate something to the AST however large or small to keep this great work going.
Lovely and reassuring to watch this...and some highly relevant issues Best endeavours from a fellow salmon angler( Lune Eden Tweed Welsh Dee Tyne)Never made it to the Deveron ...(only the Don when I was at Uni in Aberdeen) Heres to a decent spawning for 2023 and cool times in 2024 for the parr for salmo salar across the UK...and for the future... Simon Artley Manchester
Why no mention of salmon farms or fish eating birds? Also, the rivers will never be clean if SEPA don't crack down on Scottish Water polluting our rivers with sewage. From what I've read, on my local river only about 50% of the smolts tagged make it to the estuary, what's the biggest problem for these smolts? Fish eating birds, but as I said, no mention of them.😢
Completely with you on the sewage, it's a disgrace all over the country. Not sure I agree on the birds though. Native birds and salmon have existed together for ten thousands of years, yes some salmon will get eaten but in a healthy river plenty survive and you have a balance. Trouble is the damage we have done means we no longer have healthy rivers and seas.
@@jackplant6909 The difference is years ago there were no Cormorants this far inland on my local river. I've seen the damage one bird can do with my own eyes, the smolt run is Christmas to them. Stood on a bridge in Dumfries one May day and watched a Cormorant on the river, under it went 30 times and every time it came up with a silver smolt in it's beak. One bird, half an hour, doesn't take Einstein to work out the damage 50 of them would do during the smolt run, I'm sure there's more than 50 of them on the length of the Nith. I can't ever remember seeing a Cormorant on the river 40 years ago. As for Goosanders, as you know they ain't native, my club paid a bounty on any Goosanders killed years ago, now they're protected, a balance is needed, I've never seen as many. As you say though, the damage has been done mostly by us [humans], wether that's pollution from sewage works, farming, acid rain from forrestry, etc. As for the damage fish farms do, I better no get started on them, lol.
@totebal1409 that's a really good point, non natives, or native birds driven into a new habitat because their own has been degraded are a big problem!
I believe that complex habitats are important as well. So lots of surrounding trees and bushes, some fallen into the water, to create lots of eddies, nooks, crannies, etc. Lots of bends and shallows and overhangs. There are lots of chalk stream restoration videos of YT showing great work being done to return rivers back to their original state before man intervened. These will enable the fish to hide from totebal1409’s ‘bad’ fish-eating birds!
Dare I say beaver’s could create such a complex and diverse habitat mosaic if appropriate for the area, once there are some trees for them to coppice of course.
Thanks for the production 🤩
Its all well and good putting the spotlight on a top tier river like the deveron in Scotland but its the smaller rivers in Wales and England which need the help and funding
What a wonderful, informative film. Well done to Mark, Jim, Dom & all the team. All of us who want to save the Atlantic salmon species should donate something to the AST however large or small to keep this great work going.
Great work guys !
Really good information and explains it well.
Lovely and reassuring to watch this...and some highly relevant issues
Best endeavours from a fellow salmon angler( Lune Eden Tweed Welsh Dee Tyne)Never made it to the Deveron ...(only the Don when I was at Uni in Aberdeen)
Heres to a decent spawning for 2023 and cool times in 2024 for the parr for salmo salar across the UK...and for the future...
Simon Artley Manchester
Humbling and encouraging to see hopefully justice will be done giving all unprosecuted polluters of our Rivers.
✊ stand together fight as one
Pioneers....
In short, remove the darn old dams if there's no use to them, they're one of the major reasons why our migratory fish species are in crisis. :)
Why no mention of salmon farms or fish eating birds? Also, the rivers will never be clean if SEPA don't crack down on Scottish Water polluting our rivers with sewage. From what I've read, on my local river only about 50% of the smolts tagged make it to the estuary, what's the biggest problem for these smolts? Fish eating birds, but as I said, no mention of them.😢
Completely with you on the sewage, it's a disgrace all over the country. Not sure I agree on the birds though. Native birds and salmon have existed together for ten thousands of years, yes some salmon will get eaten but in a healthy river plenty survive and you have a balance. Trouble is the damage we have done means we no longer have healthy rivers and seas.
@@jackplant6909 The difference is years ago there were no Cormorants this far inland on my local river. I've seen the damage one bird can do with my own eyes, the smolt run is Christmas to them. Stood on a bridge in Dumfries one May day and watched a Cormorant on the river, under it went 30 times and every time it came up with a silver smolt in it's beak. One bird, half an hour, doesn't take Einstein to work out the damage 50 of them would do during the smolt run, I'm sure there's more than 50 of them on the length of the Nith. I can't ever remember seeing a Cormorant on the river 40 years ago. As for Goosanders, as you know they ain't native, my club paid a bounty on any Goosanders killed years ago, now they're protected, a balance is needed, I've never seen as many. As you say though, the damage has been done mostly by us [humans], wether that's pollution from sewage works, farming, acid rain from forrestry, etc. As for the damage fish farms do, I better no get started on them, lol.
@totebal1409 that's a really good point, non natives, or native birds driven into a new habitat because their own has been degraded are a big problem!