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As reported in the Herald, no fish were caught during the River Sid fish lift event a week ago, but volunteers are confident about the future: Charles Sinclair, chair of the River Sid Catchment Group, said: “A fascinating though disappointing result from the fish lift today. The large number […]

We were giving fish a helping hand up the Sid, yesterday, Tuesday 18th November at School Weir The River Sid Catchment Group were there to catch the ‘fish lift’ – with a short video and report: Thank you to everyone who came to support the annual […]

The Environment Agency have been working at School Weir and helping salmon along the Sid. And in parallel, the Westcountry Rivers Trust are also working along the Sid.  And so, working with these key players and others, the River Sid Catchment Group are looking to restoring the River […]

Art is a wonderful way to engage people in almost anything – and the Sidmouth School of Art has been doing that successfully with several projects – including back in June when some eye-catching River Sid artwork featured on Sidmouth’s Wallspace and this time last year with […]

This time last year, there was a drive at producing a Nature Recovery Strategy for Devon. We now have a Devon Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) which “gives an overview of Devon’s wildlife and sets out priorities and actions to help nature recover. It’s a tool to help […]

The Westcountry Rivers Trust has been actively involved in work along the River Sid – increasingly so since it looked at the River Otter & Sid a decade ago. They were commissioned in 2023 by the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group to carry out electrofishing on the Sid which the WRT have […]

Recently, the Environment Agency have been working at School Weir along the Sid removing a large bank of river stone – and at the same time they have ‘rescued’ the fish in the pool at the bottom of the weir. As reported by Ed Dolphin: Busy […]

All this week, the Environment Agency have been busy at School Weir. As reported on Sunday on the District Council social media pages, 🚜 From tomorrow (Monday)…  From tomorrow (Monday), the Environment Agency will begin removing a large bank of river stone from just below the […]

A very good place to go for information about the topography of the Sid Valley is the excellent Sidmouth Nature website: A guide to the wildlife and wild places in the Sidmouth area of Devon | Sidmouth Nature And, for example, the pages on The River Sid are […]

Generally speaking, assessing pollution in the Sid is about “the twin approach of pressure on water companies and citizen science” Whilst the River Sid is relatively pollution-free, other rivers in Devon are not so fortunate. For example, early last month, there was an incident on the River Lew, […]