Eel Trap Results 2015 !

Midweek trip yesterday produced 15, steady results each time which is very pleasing

Not sure if its a PB, but had a 150mm monster

So the numbers are:

1 x 150
1 x 100
1 x 110
3 x 95
4 x 90
2 x 85
1 x 80
1 x 75
1 x 70

Ah forgot to post we had zero on Saturday, the trap was brimmed and we expect the escaped.

Going to pop by tomorrow, can do Saturday this week sorry folks,

It's been a few weeks but I will try to be down at the eel trap tomorrow around 10am
Cheers
Ed

Met Patrick & Nicola there this morning,
the water flow had completely stopped, there was no flow through the trap at all and both syphons had stopped.

1 elver - 95mm
1 bullhead

We will need some more volunteers, I am away for the next 2 weekends and I believe the same goes for Patrick & Nicola as well.

I will do Saturday and maybe midweek.

Spot on about numbers, next year we will go outside of the TAC for volunteers

eye will pop down 2 morrow, need the x-or-size, turning in 2 a fat pig

Thanks Keith

I've not done any this year so will make more of an effort in 2016.

manage to get there today, nearly killed me, hav'nt been on a push bike in a few weeks, me piles are killing me

managed to find 5 babies elvers of 75mm long

then the long bike ride home, "OOOOHHHHH" me pils

Superb thanks for getting there mate, long ride on a hard saddle

I will get down on Saturday

How was the flow through the trap?

both pipes were working, but the upper water level is a bit low, so not much of a flow from main pipe

Message from Joe

Just under eight weeks of monitoring left for this season- where has the time gone!

You’ve heard less from me this year than previous monitoring seasons as we’ve been flat out getting new passes up and running and securing funding for continuation of the work you are all contributing to – more on that at the forum. Speaking of the forum please can you let all volunteers helping with the monitoring know that this year we will be back at ZSL, London Zoo on October 20th. In addition to feedback on the season’s data presentations are being lined up from Thames Water and the Environment Agency. I’ll send out the registration link in a couple of weeks.

I’ve attached a paper published this month on the many challenges we face in our efforts to protect eel populations from further decline. The lead authors of the paper are both ZSL colleagues.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3w4cR2EIJuIU09teWZycDR6NTdUajVuSEhQalRjdUtwWXdJ

I’ve attached a paper published this month on the many challenges we face in our efforts to protect eel populations from further decline. The lead authors of the paper are both ZSL colleagues.

Many thanks and best wishes, Joe

Today 3

95mm
85mm
75mm

Well done
I should be available again next week so will pop down.

Patrick are you down Saturday?

I will try my best, Ed ?

Could be a little intersting if this rain fills up the river

Yeah should be around for a 10 ish cup of coffee and a count up.

Today there were 3 eels: 100, 95, 90 and a stone loach which at first I thought was a baby barbel, but closer inspection and judicious application of the interweb identified it as a loach. Good flow through the trap still.

Cheers Patrick, thanks for getting down.

I will pop down midweek.

Will be down for a coffee first thing, well 9:45 ish

See you in the morning

Nicola, Patrick, Dave and me met at the trap this sunny morning, obviously expecting a bumper haul. But river levels were right down - though the syphons were both working well so there was some flow through the trap the dowstream river was well below the tail entry point.
Then took the lid off and the trap had been fiddled with by someone, pipes were in the wrong bit and one was bridging the cone so would allow eels back out (albeit downstream) again.

No eels in trap but Dave got one in the box, 90mm.
3 live crabs and one shell, probably moulted by the biggest - a monster which jumped out at Patrick whilst cleaning the mud off the box - perhaps 8"/20cm or more across.

Photos...

Hi guys, I will be unable to go this Saturday as I'm off to marsh farm, Nicola will be down at shawns for coffee at 10 o clock and is prepared to check them however an extra pair of hands would be appreciated.

I have just pulled up by the lock and will do it now, was planning to as the RWC traffic is going to mess with everything tomorrow.

So all good chaps, coffee a week Saturday

Single 85mm and 2 bullheads.

Level is very low both up and down stream.