Pennywort Post - July 2022
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Pennywort Update - July 2022
The latest edition of the Pennywort Post from LFCC chairman Martin Moore with an update on the current situation on Floating Pennywort.around the Yately area.
https://lfcc.org.uk/downloads/category/2-other-lfcc-documents?download=229:pennywort-post-july-2022
Dry Weather Advise For Fishery Managers
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- Category: Drought
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EA Publications - Dry Weather Advise for Fishery Managers
Although we have had some rain recently, groundwater levels are low and there is a risk of low water levels this summer. The links below contain files with information on managing your stillwater or river fishery during hot and/or dry weather. Thank you to Ade Bicknell, Loddon & Wey Fisheries Officer, for forwarding these for the LFCC.
https://lfcc.org.uk/downloads/category/4-stillwater?download=227:dry-weather-advise-stillwaters
https://lfcc.org.uk/downloads/category/5-rivers?download=228:dry-weather-advise-rivers
Update!!! - Water Quality Monitoring Network
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Angling Trust - Water Quality Monitoring Network (WQMN)
UPDATE - This scheme is now being rolled out nationally and kits will be available for clubs and anglers to monitor their stretches of River and log data.
For those of you that managed to attend the recent LFCC meeting or recieved the minutes by subscribing to our mailchimp notifications, you may well have looked at the link to the Angling Trusts Water Quality Monitoring Newtwork. With the ongoing issues of general pollution in our rivers and the excessive discharges of sewage, this would is an ideal oppertunity for those angling clubs with stretches of rivers, and especially those with nearby Sewage Treatment Works (STW) and/or Combined Sewage Outfalls (CSO), to monitor the water quality and feed back valuable data. The data is collected either via PC or a smartphone app.
The initail rollout of the scheme was in the River Severn Catcment but is due to be expanded nationally in the next couple of months. You can register your interest to take part in this by following the link above and emailing Kristian Kent at his address at the bottom of that page.
If there is sufficient intererst from clubs or individuals within the LFCC, there may be a possiblity of allocating some Fisheries Improvement Fund (FIP) money towards the cost of the testing kits. So if your part of a club and would be interested then please drop us an email at
Riverfly Monitoring
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Riverfly Monitoring on the River Kennet
A short video made for Action for the River Kennet (ARK on riverflly monitoring. The LFCC is hoping to include a talk on this at a future meeting. The link to the video is below.
Wonder Weevil Released
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Pennywort Munching Weevil Released to Combat Invasive Plant
In a world-first, South American weevils have been released in England to fight against the invasive non-native species floating pennywort, as part of Invasive Species Week.
An ornamental pond plant originating from North America, floating pennywort has the ability to grow up to 20 centimetres each day, forming dense rafts over our rivers that harm native plant, fish and invertebrate species, through competition and cutting oxygen levels in water. Floating pennywort impedes navigation routes, disrupts recreational activities like fishing and canoeing and exacerbates flood risk.
Follow the link below to read the full article.
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