River Wye, River Hamps, River Manifold - Derbs County AC, Chatsworth Estate, Cressbrook & Litton Fly Fishing Club, Leek & District FFA

Coordinator - position vacant

Sites      River Manifold (2), River Wye (4), River Hamps (2)
Team      5
Activity   Since 2006

Riverfly workshops were held on the Derbyshire Derwent at Chatsworth in 2006 and attracted interest from a range of angling clubs and river fishery managers in the area. Since then, riverfly monitoirng has continued on a monthly basis on the River Wye in Derbyshire, with an improving diversity of aquatic invertebrates recorded since the upgrading of Buxton sewage works in 2004/5: this has included the appearance of stoneflies and the mayfly Ephemera danica, previously absent from samples from the upper river. 
Other sites such as the River Hamps and River Manifold (Staffordshire Moorlands) have been sampled less frequently. The area currently lacks a co-ordinator so information on the sites sampled, the frequency of sampling and the data collected remains patchy at present. Anyone interested in joining the monitoring team and acting as a coordinator should contact The Riverfly Partnership via email info@riverflies.org.