Climate Change Hits Trout and Salmon in UK's Prized Chalk Streams
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Climate change hits trout and salmon in UK's prized chalk streams
A summer of record-breaking temperatures and drought is threatening the ecological balance of rare chalk streams -- rivers formed on chalk beds that are largely unique to England -- and the fish that depend on them. Wading through a branch of the Itchen near Winchester, Robert Wellard, director of fisheries at the Piscatorial Society and a recreational angler, dipped a thermometer into the clear water, drawing a reading of 17C. "We should be mor…
Fragilized by an exceptionally hot summer and a drought that affected three quarters of England, the famous British chalk streams, these almost unique chalk rivers in the world, see their balance threatened, everything...
Ecological balance threatened: Climate change hits trout and salmon in UK's prized chalk streams
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