This fish ladder is amazing!

In this video I give you a tour of the incredible Diglis Island Fish Pass and shed light on why it's so important for not only fish species like the Twaite Shad and Salmon but for the health of the UK's longest river, the river Severn!
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[@smeraldoderosa7556]

Wonderful remedial work! Some people might say "too late" . I think better late than never. We gotta give nature a chance whenever and wherever possible.

[@barrybell4879]

cracking video and good to hi-light the work been done to help the environment

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

Nice one Jamie, yes make more of them please, Thank you

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thanks James mate!

[@russ8544]

That was a fantastic vid Jamie, thank you so much,from a fellow Sheffielder.

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thank you Russ!

[@davebramhall4327]

Have a look at the one on the River Tummel in Scotland at Pitlochry. 310m long, and a rise equivalent to the dam wall.

[@CatchFishingChannel]

I will do thanks Dave!

[@NicholasGunn-f5m]

It's brilliant , 10 salmon in there when we visited .

[@TipoftheHook]

That is an awesome project 💯, thank you for the tour, loved it 😍👍! Keep them videos coming, watching you all the way from Kazakhstan 😉🖐

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thank you and there's plenty more to come mate! ;)

[@TipoftheHook]

@@CatchFishingChannel I will keep an eye for sure 😉💯 Thank you 🙏👍

[@phillkirby]

I would of liked to have seen under the pass that u previewed in the beginning where the people were sat watching the salmon live through the glass window it looked awesome 👌

[@fraserconnell21]

Really interesting. I Remember visiting Pitlochry salmon ladder when I was a kid. There's a underwater viewing window there too. The "salmon ladder" there allows the fish to bypass a dam so it's a fair height difference from the river up to the top. 👍🏼

[@anthonylong6403]

Very interesting, thank you. Would be very interested to see a similar vid of one of the 'Archimedes Screw 'installations now in operation on the river Calder or on the Aire, which are obviously on your home Yorkshire patch!

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thanks Anthony and I never thought about those so thank you!

[@osbornebay944]

Here in BC, Canada, we have thousands of waterways can use this system to help Salmon go up to the spawning grounds......

[@david2057]

That's so awesome. We need more of these in Europe!

[@eddiefogg1856]

Brilliant Jamie, thanks for sharing.😊👍

[@Northumberlandbasssman]

Loved this! Great vid

[@julien1]

brilliant jamie... !

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thanks Julien!

[@BlackCountryPiker]

I’ve often wondered what that fish pass is like 👍

[@Tommeertens24858]

Amazing video Jamie 👍👌

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thanks Tom mate! ;)

[@garryworthington1334]

Love this Jimmy

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thanks Garry!

[@antrog1895]

Absolutely fantastic video 👍

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thank you!

[@pedromorais6882]

Theres one just like that in Coimbra that has over a decade at least. And the dam has like 5 meters high. For 2 meteres we have a more basic and cheap system that works just as well.

[@whitetroutchannel]

still get runs of twaite shad here across the irish sea, while i commend these efforts its little good when every river in the country is choked out with phosphates and untreated waste water, a uk wide season long licence and permit strike is needed by every angler in the uk, hit the EA in the pocket

[@stucrossland3719]

Is the fish ladder at Colwick sluices on the Trent finished yet ?

[@smitbar11]

Yes indeed! Go see it, I did ParkRun there Saturday morning, well impressed!

[@stucrossland3719]

@@smitbar11 , Will do,thanks.

[@michaelgray1351]

Fantastic video and very interesting Jamie, did I read somewhere that they are building something like this on the river trent as well ?

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Thanks Michael and I haven't heard anything but I'll see if I can find out mate!

[@smitbar11]

@@CatchFishingChannel At Colwick, gets past the sluice-gates there 😉

[@hectatusbreakfastus6106]

I wish that these were so much more common, same with screens to stop fish from getting into irrigation canals for agricultural use. We could use a way more vibrant and healthy fish population in every nation.

[@beanysfishing2555]

Ive caught plenty of shad over the years in the UK. Ive tried eating them before they went 'endangered' and we were banned from catching them. I dont know why anyone would want to eat them. They are just a giant herring, thats so much drier and appears to have more bones. I normal herring is ten times tastier, and I wouldnt ever bother cooking a shad again.

[@chrispritchard2081]

man made solution to a fishes problem just a shame the water companies dont do their bit instead of polluting rivers everywhere they are based

[@benhowlett7693]

Exactly this! Complete waste of money! Window dressing at its finest! Like down Lincolnshire recently with fish kill! Year before stocked fish and happy days but it was always going to be a waste of time and money

[@mmnnra55]

We need to have these fish ladders at all the rivers around the Chesapeake Bay.

[@whatsupshittafabraans1926]

We cal them ladders for a logical reason, we got one in Liverpool NSW, problem is there’s no policy about fishing it’s entrance, which all the locals seem to do.

[@phil4455]

Water companies should never have been privatised. All the money that should have been invested in infrastructure and treatment instead was sent to shareholders. As recently announced we will have massive hikes in bills to cover the years of low investment.

[@phillkirby]

Now everything has been sold to china 🇨🇳

[@michaelpagett8291]

They were shit when the government owned them ssme as the railways . Remember "British rail we're getting there ". They never did!

[@Gablotescobar]

That must be a very old shad !!! 180years its not been able to get to spawn ...incredible 🤔

[@CatchFishingChannel]

Hahaha

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

Great,,,🌎

[@samTollefson]

The water is robustly moving through the ladder for a long way. I wonder if that adds more oxygen to the water than normal river water, thereby giving the fish more oxygen and energy to help them make the trip upstream less stressful and better able to continue their journey successfully.

[@mossig]

It should be illegal to build fish stairs past turbine dams or any other mechanical device that cuts up fish travelling down stream. I have a property shortly downstream an electrical power plant. It was never any good fishing in this stretch of river due to a plant also down stream. But after they build the stairs the stock of fish got depleted. In spring the fish travel up but they come down in pieces! They don't use the stairs going down. In my river now they have to pass 6 plants before reaching the sea! It's crazy! It was better when they got stuck one kilometer from the mouth of the river at the first plant. The stairs maybe don't have much impact on large species like Salmon that spawn only once. But all other fish that adults migrate downwards, its detrimental! Eel, Pike, Bream, Id, Perch, Grayling, White fish, Sturgeon, Carp, Burbot etc.

[@rostfleck79]

I wonder if a Tesla valve design would make for a good fish lader 🤔

[@fishypie]

just a crying shame the river seven is in such a state, i fish the upper seven and there are just so much dead water up there, no weed just brown slime, no salmon parr, you may catch 3 in a week. 40 years ago parr were a pest fish in fast water . none of them masses of minnows anymore , all that work is to late,

[@CatchFishingChannel]

I've never seen the upper reaches but if that's the case it's such a shame :(

[@justinschoon1359]

They are great when you don't have space for a natural bypass channel or baffling flows below the weir isn't viable. Putting more concrete into the river should definitely not be the answer to all fish passage problems, though.

[@AaronsAnglingJourney]

👏👏

[@georgebryson7753]

go to Scotland if you want to see fish ladders

[@ralphjohnson4041]

Why not just remove the weir? Probably serves no purpose now anyway.

[@sage088]

Zec 8:10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour. Zec 8:11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. And Because of JESUS’S Life and Life in Abundance is at work that is why man is building things to protect Wild life and the environment Hallelujah ❤️🙌👍😊

[@johnsmith-px1sr]

must have cost a fortune

[@spazzymacgee5648]

Who would want to fish in England anymore? The state of the waters is disgraceful.