{"id":50686,"date":"2014-11-25T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=96ad591494454d661c38120f447e7e1c"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:01:53","slug":"press-release-trout-make-spawning-return-to-north-east-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50686","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Trout make spawning return to North East river"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sea trout are once again returning to spawn in a large north east stream following huge improvements in water quality and measures to help wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Cong Burn, a tributary of the River Wear, was once a watercourse polluted through years of neglect from industry.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of it had also been modified by culverts to free up land for roads and other infrastructure, which can also create problems for river wildlife, including fish.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is still work to do to clean up the burn sea trout \u2013 an excellent indicator of water quality \u2013 are returning there to spawn.<\/p>\n<p>Fisheries officer Paul Frear said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">There are now more than 20 spawning areas in the burn compared to the handful we\u2019ve seen in previous years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is excellent news and shows that the conditions are right for the fish to return.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Environment Agency has paid for members of Chester-le-Street Angling Club to remove a weir and make changes to underground culverts to help fish move along the watercourse.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements to the quality of the water in Cong Burn have been made following water company investment at Hustledown sewage treatment works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of industrial use is reversed by Environment Agency and partners as Sea Trout return to spawn on the River Wear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}