Environment Agency gives young salmon a head start by continuing its important work to restore a salmon population in the River Trent and its tributaries next week with a stocking of young salmon (fry).
The Agency, on Monday 9 October, will be releasing approximately 50,000 fry into the River Dove at Rocester, near Uttoxeter.
The stocking is part of the Agency’s ongoing programme to reintroduce salmon into rivers where populations were driven to extinction during the early 20th Century, due to pollution from various industries and poorly treated sewage.
The water quality of the River Trent has now improved and in the past five months alone, the Agency has added approximately 160,000 small salmon into the Dove.
The Fisheries, Ecology and Recreation manager for the Upper Trent area, Mr Martin Cooper, says: ‘The Agency has been re-introducing salmon to the Dove to help bring the species back to the River Trent since 1998 and this reintroduction is part of this on-going programme to build up the population.’
