View source for Case study:Salmonid, coarse fish and wetland bird habitat and flood plain linkage project, Hampshire Avon

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{{Project overview
|Status=Complete
|Project web site url=www.hampshireavoncatchmentpartnership.org.uk/
|Themes=Fisheries, Habitat and biodiversity
|Country=England
|Main contact forename=Leanne
|Main contact surname=Sargeant
|Main contact id=H
|Contact organisation=Wessex Chalk Streams and Rivers Trust
|Contact organisation url=www.wcsrt.org.uk
|Partner organisations=Barbel society, Avon Tyrell Estate, Wiltshire Fisheries Association, Wessex Chalk Streams Project, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust,
|Multi-site=No
|Project picture=Burcombe 4.JPG
|Picture description=Avon tyrell post works
|Project summary=The project improved habitat for:
•	water meadow and wetland botanical and invertebrate communities
•	wading birds by improving the wetted area in adjoining fields
•	nesting song birds in new, very low-growing, bankside willow cover
•	helped trap sediment and nutrients on water meadows and within enhanced ditch systems
•	better wetting of water meadow systems will help buffer flood peaks on the lower Avon
•	Eels: improved connectivity with the floodplain and enhanced ditch systems
By cleaning spawning riffles the abundance of benthic macro-invertebrates and associated fly life will increase within project areas. 
This will have a knock-on benefit of better food provision for fish, riparian birds and bats.

The Lower Avon Project at Avon Tyrell was completed using funding from CPAF. A total of 29 large woody debris and live hinged willows were added to the channel to encourage diversified flows and cover for Salmonids and other fish species. The 100m2 of gravel cleaning and 50m2 of cover habitat for fry and Parr were carried out. The project has created 3 backwaters at least 0.5m deep with shallow profiled margins, creating a total of 500m2 of new habitat.

The Salmonid Riffle improvements on the Nadder and Wylye involved 6 sites which were improved by the Partnership as part of this CPAF funding, with a further 3 riffles improved as part of other schemes going ahead in 2015/16. The project enhanced 300m2 of riffle gravel salmonid spawning habitat at 9 sites and created 150m2 of cover habitat for parr and fry downstream of the works.
|Monitoring surveys and results=Fish using new woody habitat at Avon Tyrell. Salmon redds on new riffles and cleaned gravels. Monitoring of juvenile fish using fry bays. Presence of coarse fish fry in fry bays. Presence of waders. Fixed point photography to show the changes made by the project. This monitoring will all help with future delivery of projects and give us demonstration sites we can show to angling clubs and landowners. 
The only monitoring that was not able to take place were the red counts as the weather was too severe, making the water too muddy and clouded to be able to undertake surveys.
|Lessons learn=The collaborative working went very well, especially with building in a monitoring plan through collaboration with other Catchment Partners.
The project gave some good case studies that can be used in conjunction with other angling clubs to get them delivering some of the same types of projects on other reaches in the catchment.
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|Caption=Burcombe - post works
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|Caption=Stapleford - post works
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{{Case study subcatchment
|Subcatchment=Hampshire Avon (Lower)
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{{Site
|Name=Avon Tyrell, Burcombe, Stapleford, Quidhampton
|WFD water body name=Hampshire Avon (Lower)
|Heavily modified water body=No
|Site designation=EU - Special Area of Conservation
|Protected species present=No
|Invasive species present=No
|Species=Salmon, 
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{{Project background
|Project started=2015/04/01
|Works completed=2016/05/31
|Project completed=2016/05/31
|Total cost category=more than 10000 k€
|Funding sources=Catchment Partnership Action Fund, 
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{{Motivations
|Biological quality elements=Fish: Abundance, 
|Other motivation=Nursery habitat for coarse fish and wading bird feeding habitat.
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{{Measures
|Bank and bed modifications measure=The project created 150m2 of cover habitat for parr and fry downstream of the gravel cleaning works.The project also created 50m2 of cover habitat for fry and Parr. The project has created 3 backwaters at least 0.5m deep with shallow profiled margins, creating a total of 500m2 of new habitat.
|Management interventions=The project enhanced 300m2 of riffle gravel salmonid spawning habitat at 9 sites.The project also carried out an additional 100m2 of gravel cleaning.
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