Salmon breeding after straightened Cumbria stream rewiggled

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The previously straightened water course has been re-engineered by the RSPB and United Utilities.

Salmon are breeding in a Cumbrian beck after its course was rewiggled.

But it resulted in water moving too quickly, scouring away the gravel banks needed by fish to lay their eggs. Ecologist and RSPB Haweswater senior site manager Lee Schofield said: "To see fish spawning again back in that river where they had previously had no opportunity to do so, in such a short time period, is just hugely inspiring and shows how nature can recover.

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