The WTT's "Trout in the Town" project set up and hosted a get together for each of the current participating projects over last weekend. Funding was provided by the WTT/Esmee Fairbairn as well as the Environment Agency.
Specialist guidance was enlisted from Japanese Knotweed Solutions Ltd., SUBSTANCE, The Environment Agency, The Wandle Trust as well as within the WTT. All attendees contributed to problem-solving workshops to help all of the 8 UK-wide projects (including a number of forum members...)
Full report, photos (including gratuitous wild fish p0rn) here:
http://urbantrout.blogspot.com/2009/...-conclave.html

Local newspaper coverage of the Sheffield project (page 1 of story) and the Urban Get together (page 2 of story) is given here:
http://www.thestar.co.uk/features/Ri...ted.5478035.jp

Hi', Paul. Great work there. What a pity this sort of thing wasn't done fifty years ago. I hope the angling community, generally, hasn't left things too late, and that climate change doesn't prove that the world woke up too late. TC