Monitoring & Ecological Services

It is often necessary to sample or monitor river catchments for their effective management, from creating baseline data sets to evaluate ecosystem health, to monitoring pollution events, helping you direct resources where they can have the greatest impact. Further, monitoring and evaluation can often be a requirement of funding for delivering restoration works, helping you not only demonstrate that those works have had a positive effect, but also ensuring that you know how effective different restoration measures are improving your ability to chose the correct method in the future.

Ribble Rivers offer a wide range of Monitoring and Ecological services that can be tailored to your individual requirements:

​Macroinvertebrates

• Quantitative or semi-quantitative surveys
  
• Identification from family to species level
  

​Habitat Quality

• River Habitat Surveys
• Ecosystem Service & Opportunity Mapping
  

Water Quality

• Short term spot measures
  
• ​Long term monitoring programmes

Fish

• Electric fishing surveys
• Fish Rescues
  
• Tagging and telemetry studies
  
• Health checks
  
• Seine or fyke netting​

Invasive Species monitoring

• Himalayan Balsam
  
• Japanese Knotweed
  
• Giant Hogweed