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 Sid to ‘good ecological status’.
Here’s the latest – with further concrete steps coming.
As Ed Dolphin reported last week: Spring tides have brought the sea trout into the river and they are trying to jump school weir, if you are patient you can see them.
He posted another video today on the SVBG Facebook pages:
Walking in The Byes this morning and I saw the cormorant in the river by school weir, took my phone out just as it surfaced, any experts tell if it is a sea trout or a salmon. If you are interested in the river please follow the River Sid Catchment Group, a community group who’s aim is to look after the health of the River Sid and the wider catchment, visit [www.riversid.or](http://www.riversid.org/)g for more information.
And also today, the RSCG posted a video on their Facebook pages showing leaping trout/salmon trying to get up School Weir:
Join us on Tuesday 18 November from 10.30am to watch the Fish Lift taking places in the Byes. We will be working with @westcountryrivers and the @envagency to net migratory fish such as sea trout and salmon, lifting them over the impassable School Weir to reach their spawning grounds higher upstream in the River Sid…
We are working with West Country Rivers Trust to look at adapting barriers river, like this weir. There’s lots going on behind the scenes to make this happen and we will be hosting a community conversation meeting about it in January. Dates and details to follow soon!
Back in 2015, the then River Warden Peter Brookes reported on progress for migrating Fish in the River Sid:
