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Later this year, SmartRivers will be introducing Environmental DNA (eDNA for short) as a new data collection pathway for volunteers. Follow the link to find out more and learn how to register your interest.
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You can make a difference.

Freshwater species like the Atlantic salmon - now endangered in UK waters - are disappearing at five times the rate of those on land. But with your support, we can turn the tide.
Take Action

Something new is coming to SmartRivers!

Later this year, SmartRivers will be introducing Environmental DNA (eDNA for short) as a new data collection pathway for volunteers. Follow the link to find out more and learn how to register your interest.
Discover More

Take action to help fish move freely

Over 70,000 barriers are fragmenting UK rivers and preventing migratory fish from moving freely. Sign our handraiser and join thousands calling on the government to reconnect rivers and give wild fish a fighting chance. It takes 30 seconds.
HELP RECONNECT RIVERS

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05.08.26

The water industry’s answer to decades of failure? Weaken environmental law

After years of under-investment, leaking infrastructure, sewage pollution and over-abstraction, the water industry now faces the enormous challenge of building new reservoirs, water transfers, recycling schemes and other infrastructure to secure future water supplies. That…
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20.07.26

The Soil Association’s approval of ‘organic’ salmon farms is a mistake

Some activities are just wrong. One of them is the Soil Association’s certification of some farmed salmon as organic. Something...
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07.07.26

Southern Water’s Drought Plan is “defective”, says WildFish

Southern Water has proposed its draft Drought Plan 2027-2032, which outlines how the company plans to deal with a future drough...
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01.07.26

Wiltshire Council: no Environmental Impact Assessment ‘screening’ undertaken for intensive Avon Salmon Farm

WildFish is disappointed that Wiltshire Council did not undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment “Screening” for a new inte...
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29.06.26

Built for a different era? Why were river barriers created, and do we still need them?

We have looked at how barriers harm fish,  blocking migrations, degrading water quality and fragmenting habitats that once stre...
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25.06.26

Why we are calling for farmed salmon to be banished from The Traitors breakfast table

BAFTA-winning The Traitors has quickly become a cultural phenomenon. Celebrity and civilian versions of the TV show fill the UK...
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22.06.26

The invasion of UK rivers and the SmartRivers volunteers monitoring from the frontline

Invasive non-native species (INNS) are executing a hostile takeover of our rivers. They are arriving as stowaways in global car...
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Freshwater Invertebrate Image Library
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Environment Agency Report
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