River Wear fish protected from birds by ‘hedgehogs’

Devices called hedgehogs are coming to the rescue of fish in the River Wear in the first project of its kind in an English river, reports the BBC.

The Environment Agency have placed 12 spikey, plastic refuges in the river near Prebends Bridge in Durham to give fish places to hide from predators.

To read the full article  on the BBC Tyne & Wear website, click here.

Posted by Pete on Dec 7th, 2011 and filed under Fishing News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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