I haven't watched River Monsters in a long time and this video just reminded me how magical Jeremy's voice is. It's terrific. And I'm glad to learn about dam removals too. I know dams are an industrial wonder, but it's only fair to take down obsolete ones. That weir looks straight out of a fantasy movie though. Sidenote: I didn't know birds can scratch themselves like a cat or a dog. 2:41
Here in Texas they keep building more waste water treatment plants along our streams, water isn’t even skin contact safe in some major historic streams in Houston.
I'm going to school for environmental technology and would love to work on the rivers here in Ontario. I've become incredibly passionate about my local river and seeing it in such a state just breaks my heart. Glad to see these projects starting to take shape.
I’m glad people like you are getting the education and have the passion required to take care of these places! Our environment and its ecosystems are sacred and we need to do all we can to safeguard them and null the negative effects we have on them. Good luck to you and stay safe, we’re counting on people like you, and thank you for caring so much.
Bravo to you Jeremy! I have been a salmon and trout fisherman for the better part of my life, 45+years. I have witnessed how industrial dams wreak havoc on our wild streams and rivers, spawning routes destroyed. So pleased you are making a change! Thank you!
Nice to see you're still around, I enjoyed your show back when I used to have the cable documentary package. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this video, thumbs up.
This just proves how awesome this man is. By the time I’m done watching this video I’m gonna have enough motivation to end world hunger, fix climate change, cure cancer, and save the salmon. And you know who I’m gonna give the credit to? Jeremy Wade.
I thought Jeremy wade was gonna say we need to remove all dams😂 (that would be horrible for us, good for fish) but this dam provides no real purpose anymore. Jeremy should start a new TV show all about nature and fish habitats. That’s his real passion and goal when it’s comes to fishing
Very light gear for salmon 🙂Agree with weirs and dams being removed - Wye and Usk Foundation has been doing this for decades, although part of a very holistic approach. Sadly, too many other adverse issues, including intensive farming, commercial conifer woodland planting, excessive water abstraction, sewage etc etc
There is actually a-lot of research to show damming and slowing the water flow actually helps the wildlife and with droughts, helping prevent forest fires. But obviously not a good idea in rivers where salmon migrate. Before humans came along animals like beavers built dams.
@@HashChampion420 ye it is, someone did a video recently where he purposely flooded a small area of a forest and it massively helped by increasing the habitat for small fish, I guess its more important in this case for salmon not to have one.
Why can we not just build significantly wider, longer fish ladders with more but shorter jumps? I.E. turn the whole dam into 1 big fish ladder (not possible with large dams, I know). Also that thing about removing dams = rivers being "more able to absorb the effects of increasingly extreme rainfall" is false. Dams are excellent for flood control. If you care about the environment there is almost no better source of energy for our planet than hydropower, and you need dams for that.
I appreciate what he is doing... I don't appreciate disinformation e.g., the comments about extreme weather change - this is rubbish... YES there is climate change but it is slow and gradual and not cyclones and floods and all that NEWS tpe stuff... they should stop intimidating people to get "eyes on screens"...
