TIPALT BURN RESTORED
20th April 2023We recently completed an exciting remeandering project on an important tributary of the Tipalt Burn, near Haltwhistle. This project involved restoring a deepened and straightened channel to its original, highly sinuous route and also re-routed the bulk of the flow to a wetland. As a result, the channel is now 100m longer and is more […]
FISHING REPORT SPRING 2023
Not unexpectedly upstream salmon counts were very low in the first quarter of 2023. A combination of high flows and low water temperatures did not offer ideal migratory conditions. There is a decreasing number of early Atlantic salmon in general and the Tyne is no exception, however the Tyne still offers a chance of a […]
SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION FUNDS DRAW TO A CLOSE
Since 2017, Danielle Anderson Hire, our Farms Liaison Officer, has delivered three Defra funded Countryside Stewardship facilitation funds covering the rivers Ouseburn, South Tyne, Don, Team and Derwent. This 3-year fund, (so good we ran it three times) brought famers and land managers together to improve the natural environment at a landscape scale, organised workshops […]
GLOBAL RECOGNITION FOR HOLISTIC CATCHMENT-SCALE PROJECT IN THE CENTRE OF BRITAIN.
11th April 2023Tyne Rivers Trust were delighted to host Yukihiro Shimatani and his research team from Japan in Haltwhistle this March, sharing project learning and expertise on catchment-scale improvements, citizen science and engagement. The day was full of energised conversation around how elements of The Haltwhistle Burn Project could be applied to tackling 2000km2 in Japan across […]
NORTH EAST INVASIVES STRATEGY
We have been working alongside Tweed, Northumberland, Wear, and Tees Rivers Trusts, Newcastle University, Environment Agency and ERIC NE to reduce the threat of invasive non-native species in our region. As one of the few regions left relatively unimpacted by invasive species, it is vital that we prevent their further spread. A new rapid reporting […]
OUR VOLUNTEERS BREAK RECORDS!
We want to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers who helped us through 2022. The year was a record breaking year reaching 4941 volunteer hours, almost double of previous years! Our work through 2022 included installing over 500m of bankside protection, to reduce sediment entering rivers, removing over 1400 tree guards to […]
FISHING REPORT: 8 DECEMBER 2022
8th December 2022Twenty twenty two will be remembered for the long dry spell of hot weather. River conditions were difficult at best throughout late spring and summer into early autumn. Despite adverse conditions upstream migration counts were encouraging, close to 29,000 counts for the year were recorded at the Riding Mill counter which is in the 5 […]
A SAFE HAVEN FOR NATIVE CRAYFISH
15th November 2022We’ve spent the summer working with a group of volunteers to monitor the locations and population of native white clawed crayfish in the River Rede, as part of our Native North Tyne project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Our Native North Tyne project celebrates what’s interesting and unique about the River North Tyne […]
