IFM Specialist Conference 2016
Farming and Fisheries
Rheged Centre.
Penrith, England
10th – 12th May 2016
Programme
Tuesday May 10th 09.30 – 17.15
8.45 – 09.30 Registration and refreshments
Session 1. Setting the Scene
Session Chair: TBC
09.30
09.40
10.10
10.40
Paul Coulson,
Institute of Fisheries
Management
John Zablocki,
Nature Conservancy,
USA
Jonathan Grey,
Wild Trout Trust
Welcome and opening remarks
The view from across the Pond. Working with landowners on a
grand scale
An overview of the impacts of land management on UK rivers
Alice Richards,
TBC
National Farmers Union
Panel questions and discussion
11.10
11.20
Break
Session 1. Ecological Impacts of Sediment
Session Chair: Iain Turner IFM
11.50
Ross Cherrington,
Westcountry Rivers
Trust
12.10
Peter Brunner,
Royal Haskoning
12.30
Mary Kelly Quinn,
University College
Dublin
12.50
13.10
13.30
13.45
Caitlin Pearson,
Dales Rivers Trust
John Quinton,
Lancaster University
Unregulated maize and fodder beet management in the SW
and their impacts on soil loss
Troubled Waters: Investigating Ecological Impacts of
Sediments in UK Lakes
Potential impact of cattle access on the ecological quality of
rivers: some observations from Ireland
The effect of agricultural grazing on Invertebrate communities
in streams
Keeping soil on the land and out of the rivers = better crops
and a cleaner environment
Panel questions and discussion
Lunch
Session 2. Diffuse Pollution and its Impacts
Session Chair: TBC
14.40
15.00
Kate Mathers,
Loughborough
University
Mark Walsingham,
Natural England
How do signal crayfish influence fine sediment dynamics and
what are the implications for macroinvertebrate communities?
Restoration of Redmire Pool and the Wye and Garron
catchments.
15.20
Simon Evans,
Wye and Usk
Foundation
15.40
Ian Winfield,
Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology
16.00
16.15
Correcting land abuse in the Wye for the benefit of farmers
and fish
An historic brown trout fishery and a new environmental
governance: nutrient management at Loweswater, UK
Panel questions and discussion
Break
16.45 – 17.30 Open Discussion
Moderator: TBC
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Wednesday May 11th 9.30 – 16.00
9.00 – 9.30 Registration and refreshments
Session 3. Working Together
Session Chair:
09.30
09.40
10.00
10.20
Paul Coulson,
Institute of Fisheries
Management
Chris Stoate,
Game and Wildlife
Conservation Trust
Jonah Tosney,
Norfolk Rivers Trust
Welcome and opening remarks
The Water Friendly Farming project – a landscape scale
experiment to investigate mutual benefits to farming and water
The WaterLife Project in Norfolk
The River Worfe Restoration Initiative: saving a fragmented
and threatened native brown trout population in Shropshire by
catchment interventions
Peter Dennis,
Apem Ltd
There’s a change in the Aire – How Upper Aire farmers are
10.40
Peter Turner,
Environment Agency
outstanding in their field.
Panel questions and discussion
11.00
11.15
Break
Session 4. Working Together II
Session Chair: TBC
Recognising which agricultural practices are causes and
sources of diffuse water pollution, raising awareness and
looking for sustainable solutions
Finding multi beneficial solutions to restore a SSSI River in
Yorkshire.
11.45
Rob Thomas,
Natural Resources Wales
12.05
Dan Turner,
Dales Rivers Trust
12.25
Simon Johnson,
Eden Rivers Trust
TBC
12.45
Phil Lyth
Yorkshire Farming and
Wildlife Partnership
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Experiences of Working
with Farmers & Landowners to Improve the Water
Environment
13.05
13.20
Panel questions and discussion
Lunch
Session 5. Finding a Solution
Session Chair: Paul Coulson IFM
14.20
14.40
Leela O’Dea,
Frog Environmental
Tea Basic,
Bournemouth
University
15.00
Marta Assunção,
Cefas
15.20
Simon Evans,
Wye and Usk
Foundation
15.40
Chris Turner,
CSF Eden
16.00
16.00
Water LynxTM block technology improves Nautilus PondTM
wetland design
Impacts of gravel jetting on spawning substrates of lithophilic
fish species
Using a modelling approach to assess present and future land
use pressures on salmonid populations: a case study in the
River Tamar catchment
The Wye and Usk Angling Passport Scheme. Giving
something back to the landowners.
Catchment Sensitive Farming in the Eden
Panel questions and discussion
Conference Close
Thursday May 12th 9.00 – 13.30Field Trip
The field trip will leave from the Rheged Centre and visit partnership projects run by
the Eden Rivers Trusts in their catchment. Full details on locations will be available
shortly.