Update on Your Fisheries catchment scale evidence management tool

1. Planning and delivering fisheries
management in partnership at a
catchment scale
Your Fisheries

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Need for a weight of evidence approach to
Fisheries Management
• Increasing body of evidence and information collected and held
by catchment partnerships
• Balancing the increasing focus on WFD data to underpin the
delivery of fisheries management objectives
• Greater recognition that partnership working provides significant
added value

3. 3
Angler, NGO and
public evidence
& aspiration
e.g. WFD, CL’s
targets, data and
models
Weight of evidence to
build consensus and
generate partnership
action
Your Fisheries
Bottom
up
???
Top
down

4. 4
Your Fisheries
Partnership initiative to develop and roll out a web based
platform to support a participatory and weight of evidence
approach to fisheries management at the catchment scale.
Goals - Provide a fisheries management input to CaBA delivery to
generate actions that;
1. Improve/maintain fish stocks
2. Improve/maintain fishing opportunity

5. Your Fisheries - Funding & supporting
partners

6. 6
Your Fisheries – web platform

8. 8
Piloting Your Fisheries
• Your Fisheries is now currently being trialled in at least one
catchment of every River Basin District in England
• RT Fisheries Technical Specialist to help with the
development of the system and also help oversee the
delivery of the project

9. 9
Objectives of piloting phase
• Develop the process of working with partner
organisations and wider fisheries stakeholders to obtain
catchment specific data and information
• Start to produce catchment specific fisheries reports
through the ‘Your Fisheries’ system
• investigate mechanisms for delivering the priority actions
identified within the report
• Help refine the web system

11. “Support the development of ‘Your Fisheries’
catchment fisheries pilots withThe RiversTrusts”.

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Fisheries Improvement Programme Criteria
Angling benefits from work on this
water?
Yes Will the work result in more angling
participation at the venue?
Yes
Will the work increase the number
of juniors?
Yes Estimated match funding value (separate
figures for in kind and cash)?
£2000 cash, £10000 in kind for
contractor time
Match funding band? Good Fisheries Habitat
Length of river restored (km), or area of
stillwater benefiting (ha)
5-10km
Fish Passage
Length of river opened, to next
obstruction or source (km)
n/a Water Framework Directive
Fisheries reasons for failure addressed
No
Your Fisheries
Priority action addressed (when
available)?
Improving Fisheries Evidence
Supporting local collaborative research
and investigations?
Yes
National Angling Strategy
Does your project deliver or
support a NAS outcome?
Yes Angling Improvement Fund
Does your project link to a AIF project?
No

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Rolling out Your Fisheries…
• Continue to support pilot catchments
• Pilot evaluation March 2018
• Wider CaBA roll-out – get in touch!
tom@theriverstrust.org