Yellow Sally Restoration in the UK
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Sweet. Hope it works out.
Maybe I missed it but did the article mention what caused the severe decline in Yellow Sally abundance and if that can be reversed? (...clean aerated water, with an optimal flow, limiting specific insecticides...)
I wish them luck. The section of a local river I fished yesterday was a mile of almost nothing a decade ago. Now with work it's full of stones and fish. Finding the why and correcting it works.
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Don't think so, but that would be wise of them to identify the limiting factor(s) prior to trying to re-establish the population.
What kind of work was done Tom?
They took a levee back about 100', graded out the incised channel, added meanders, braids, woody structure (jams and flow slowing in high water structures), and then planted native vegetation. This was after years of study and planning.
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"Took the levee back about 100' " is absolutely music to my ears.
You mean to say that a river allowed to function naturally, in fact functions naturally? Bold hypothesis but I'm glad it worked out