This is a dedicated thread for discussing news item: Back from the brink - Environment Agency reveals the most improved rivers

Nice to see some positive news.

Yes, good news for all. Are the rivers listed in any specific order? It's just that BBC Wales listed them in different order, but then again they would wouldn't they? BBC News - Dee and Taff in Environment Agency improved rivers list



Special congratulations to EA Wales for their work on the Dee which flows through my home town of Chester.
Yielding nowhere near as many salmon as the Wear at 1,415, despite the seals, in 2010. However eclipsing the once mighty Wye to become premier MSW salmon river in Wales: 567 grilse and 219 MSW salmon.

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Makes good reading, shame in the case of theThames its just ****, hiding the major pollution events in the tidal waters(many), the simple fact that the salmon are once again history, and the rivers appalling management strategy with regards to high water times, and over abstraction, funny they glossed over those facts!!!!!!!!
peter

It's great to see that so many of the listed rivers are the real post-industrial waterways that not so long ago were total basket-cases... but in many cases now have thriving populations of trout (hint: even some of those you might not expect )

Yes, the European Water Framework Directive may be what's driving some of the improvements, but as an angler I'm inclined to accept any help I can get - and in this case I'm very happy that the UK is far more inclined to follow the letter of European law than, say, some of our Mediterranean cousins!

Theo

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I don't believe there was any implied order to the listings - the press releases certainly did not mention any.
Theo - congratulations on the Wandle by the way. Must find time to get up and fish with you sometime so you can show me first-hand what you have there.