Sectors

 

We work within a range of sectors. The following tasks represent services which we have carried out for clients in recent years

Fisheries management

 
  • Creating fisheries management plans
  • Identification of limitations of fishery production
  • Identifying opportunities to enhance and improve fishery performance

River restoration and fish passage

 
  • Project management of river restoration teams
  • Working with geomorphologists to identify potential opportunities and implications of proposed approach for river biota
  • Identification and verification of most appropriate fish pass solution
  • Design and implementation of post-restoration monitoring of fish species

Construction and infrastructure

 
  • Pre-project advice and identification of potential constraints
  • Regulatory and stakeholder engagement
  • Surveys for habitats, fish and pearl mussels
  • Method statement reviews and support of permission applications to local DSFB
  • Design of innovative working methods to avoid ecology impacts
  • Construction guidance including ECoW
  • Pre-project studies into potential impacts of new approaches

Hydropower development

 
  • Advice delivering best practice guidance for achieving consent using the following documentation xxx
  • Pre licensing surveys for fish, pearl mussels and aquatic habitats
  • Guidance on fish passage, both adapting current fish passes to meet changing flow apportionment and design of new passes
  • Identification of critical flow windows and adaptive management approaches for operations
  • Assistance with regulatory discussions and queries
  • Engagement with angling groups and local District Salmon Fishery Boards
  • Construction mitigation and guidance including ECoW
  • Identification of monitoring requirement, design of monitoring strategies and implementation of agreed monitoring plans

Windfarm developments

 
  • Pre-project advice and identification of potential constraints
  • Regulatory and stakeholder engagement
  • Pre licensing (baseline) surveys for fish, pearl mussels and sensitive habitats
  • Reviews of historic data
  • Assistance with obtaining DSFB consent, planning (EIA/HRA) and CAR
  • Identification of monitoring requirement, design of monitoring strategies and implementation of agreed monitoring plans
  • Construction mitigation and guidance including ECoW