Key Documents
This page contains useful documents and links for volunteers, coordinators, ecology contacts and tutors.
Role Descriptions
Documents summarising what is involved in each of the roles within the Riverfly Partnership:
Kits and Guides
Riverfly Partnership approved kits are available to buy from NHBS.
Please click here.
Riverfly training packs
Packs come in two formats: e-version includes files to print and collate, £10 each + p&p. Or full packs, costing £20 each + p&p where we will print and collate everything for you. If you are hosting a Riverfly training day please order via email to KHadwin@fba.org.uk five weeks in advance.
Underlay mat
You can purchase an underlay mat to put beneath your sorting tray, or download, print and laminate one yourself (available for RMI or Urban).
For the Extended Riverfly Guide, click here.
Forms — for use by monitors and coordinators
RMI recording form for printing off and using in field.
Excel form for keeping RMI records locally.
Site registration form for printing/downloading and submitting to ecology contact.
Urban field recording form — for monitors taking part in the Urban Riverfly scheme.
Extended field recording form — see the Extended page for a 6-month version.
Information for Riverfly Monitors
The following resources are for trained Riverfly monitors and coordinators participating in the RMI, Urban Riverfly Scheme, or Extended Riverfly Scheme.
Riverfly Identification and Non-Native Species Guidance:
Images of the RMI Eight, riverfly target groups, plus those of many, many more freshwater macroinvertebrates are freely available (for personal use) via the Salisbury & District Angling Club database.
More videos on John Davy Bowker's YouTube channel, ‘Freshwater Invertebrates’. Look out in particular for:
Crayfish guidance for Riverfly monitors in England and Wales (See SEPA for guidance in Scotland and Invasive Species Northern Ireland for guidance in NI)
Other Environmental Guidance:
Foam in rivers and still waters - Environment Agency information sheet
‘Sewage fungus’ A field and microscopic guide by Tim Geatches, Julie Gething and Graham Rutt, 2014
RMI Theory Training
The Riverfly Monitoring Initiative Theory Guide and Test form part of the training to become a Riverfly monitor. When you have passed the test and undertaken a practical training day run by an accredited Riverfly tutor, you will receive an RMI certificate.
Trigger Level Setting Guide
This guidance is aimed at anybody involved in setting trigger levels or interpreting RMI results, including statutory agency ecology contacts, monitors, group/hub coordinators.