Fisheries Conservation Officer

The Wyre Rivers Belief is a registered charity with a remit to enhance the ecological standing of
the River Wyre and its catchment.

Based by three angling golf equipment and supported by many neighborhood teams, the Belief began small
with localised initiatives to enhance habitat, particularly spawning circumstances, for all fish species and accomplished
with contractors and volunteers. Nevertheless, since 2013 the Belief has grown, turned host of the Wyre Waters
Catchment Partnership and is now delivering works on the catchment scale with a number of far-reaching
advantages.

Tasks tackle a variety of points impacting upon biodiversity, water high quality, and water
amount, and deal with these with options resembling pure flood administration, habitat creation and habitat
connectivity. The Belief has just lately created an Built-in Catchment Plan containing a complete checklist of priorities
throughout the Wyre catchment, reviewed and agreed by our companions. Following this course of the belief was profitable
in securing funding to help the Brock and Calder Panorama Restoration Mission, certainly one of quite a few nationwide
initiatives working to ship the best tier of the Environmental Land Administration Schemes. Inside this
challenge, there are 5 posts which WRT will recruit for within the first 6 months of supply upon challenge goals.

The FCO shall be chargeable for the coordination and supply of a catchment broad
electrofishing programme to offer the proof baseline and inform the subsequent part of challenge interventions. They may
additionally assist ship the biggest fish passage challenge ever undertaken within the Wyre Catchment comprising two fish passes
on the River Calder, together with additional fish passage works on the River Wyre ought to funding turn out to be
out there. There may even be the chance to ship a smolt emigration research on the River Calder, offering information pre
& publish the fish passage works to judge success.

The position shall be break up between home-based working within the north Lancashire space and the Wyre RT
Workplaces in Thornton, Lancashire. The candidate shall be anticipated to work throughout the complete catchment and a
massive period of time inside any given week shall be spent exterior. The officer will report back to the Wyre Rivers
Belief Normal Supervisor and Chairman.

Please see the complete job description connected beneath. To use, please ship an utility type,
masking letter and CV to [email protected] by
Monday twenty second April 2024.