Sunday, 28 September 2008

River Survey - 27th September


The river was once again very low. We sampled at the High Street ford and also at the Millennium Bridge. We were particularly successful with fish at the Millennium Bridge - we caught sticklebacks, minnows and loach and saw some larger fish. There were also the regulars: shrimp, leech and mayfly and stone fly nymphs.


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Anonymous said...

In the mid-1980s there were brown trout, minnows, eels, stone and spine loaches and bullheads.
Also lampreys that were plentiful enough to catch by hand. Very few mayfly that I remember.

27 March 2009 at 18:06

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At their meeting on 9 April 2005 the members approved this revised version of the aims of Abington Naturewatch:

  • To monitor and record the wildlife (fauna & flora) within the borders of the Abingtons;
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