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 NACA River Fisheries NACA River Fisheries R.Wensum Costessey-Ketteringhams Costessey Point Habitat Restoration Project - River Wensum NACA River FisheriesCostessey Point Habitat Restoration Project - River Wensum
Recognised in the early 1980’s as one of England’s finest barbel and chub fisheries, since then, the Costessey Point reach of the River Wensum has suffered from the affects of habitat damaging river-dredging works and over abstraction of water. Following from this its once strong flows dwindled and slowed until gradually its polished gravels pools became covered in layers of silt sediment, which eventually led to the decline of its famous fish stocks and the demise of the fishery as the jewel in the crown of Norfolk’s rivers. Twenty years later NACA started work on Costessey Point Project a highly ambitious river habitat restoration project designed to reverse the fortunes of the fishery. |
