Monitoring the Hogsmill : eel trap and rag removal
Joe Pecorelli from ZSL The eel trap was reinstalled by Joe (20.4.16) so we could monitor this years eel passage. The first eel of the season was found on the second check of the year and today (29/04/16), 3 eels were found. The eels are transferred to a bucket where they are measured before they are carefully returned to the river. Most of today's catch were of a similar age class, but a much larger eel was seen further upstream (near the cemetery) later that day. Look out for eel traps along other rivers such as this one at Teddington Lock! Emptying the trap Nigel and Mark measuring the eels Kingston University is running another eel training event during May, so if you are interested in helping out at any point from April to September with the checks, please sign up for the training (see the Kingston University biodiversity blog). Some not so good news with the river monitoring (see March, 2015 posts) : three out of...