Peter Birch

Hurrah! It's reopened #BoatsThatTweet

Today I’m out at our dredging works on the Marple lock flight!

We'd had a few reports of people (boaters and non-boaters) emptying things into the canal that they shouldn't. Here's a gentle reminder of what you can and can't do - ow.ly/TOuu50GdLUp - Please keep it clean! #CanalLife #BoatLife

HISTORIC MOMENT - shad are through the Diglis fish pass👏 Blocked for 180yrs, these speedy shad are wasting no time now & heading upriver to spawn #FollowTheShad #SevernShadRun #FishMigration @CanalRiverTrust @SevenRivers @EnvAgency @NaturalEngland @HullUniScience @ChrisGPackham

We may be slightly biased but we think #TwaiteShad are beautiful! It's hard to catch their irredescent colours in a photo but these pics taken last week of shad tagged and returned to the river give a little glimpse. #SevernShadRun #BeautifulFish #FishOfTheSevern #FollowTheShad

@JeffYates6 But there are more of us than the litterlouts, so it works out - 4million visitors to our waterways every fortnight!

@CRTPeter "If everyone who visits one of our canals or rivers picks up just one piece of plastic, they’d be clear within a year." #PlasticsChallenge This does seem to be, at best, unrealistic.

@JeffYates6 Hi Jeff, we already spend £1.2m on bin emptying, litter picking and fly tip clearance, plus our fab volunteers give over 125,000 hours (outside of pandemics) to litter work!

@CRTPeter Fully on board with your aspirational #PlasticsChallenge but would suggest that as long as a % of the population remain as thick as mince, it has obvious limitations. Alongside the 'Challenge', surely re-directed investment is required in canal bin capacity or emptying?

Today we're celebrating #WorldWildlifeDay with some of our favourite wildlife that can be found around our rivers & coastline 🌊🛶🦆🐬Boating sustainably has never been more important, make a difference to your local area by making 1 change to your boating rya.org/kxlQ50DONla

Bringing audiences to a secretive world beneath the waterline! indiegogo.com/projects/brita… @RiverMonstersUK @RiverActionUK @RiverAnglersCG @CRTFisheries @AC_Derbyshire @angling_dreams @anglingdirect @angling_times @MWGoneFishing @MattHayesfish @FishingTVapp @OrvisFlyFishing

We 💙 #WorldWildlifeDay! Here are some of the beautiful birds that call our #Canals and #Rivers home 🐦 What's your favourite bird to spot? 😌

Signs of spring 🥀 #LifesBetterByWater

We've had a boundary wall belonging to @networkrail fall onto the towpath on the #Worcester & #Birmingham Canal between Five Ways Bridge 86, Islington Row and Footbridge 84A Birmingham University Footbridge. The towpath is closed until 26 Feb. @BhamCityCouncil @ExpressandStar

When they open their mouth this wide you can see how they swallow quite sizable #fish whole. #RegentsCanalKingfisher #Kingfisher #BirdsSeenin2021 #LondonBirds #urbanwildlife #TwitterNatureCommunity @CanalRiverTrust

🔉 Sound on. Wherever you are today, find a moment of calm and listen to the gentle sounds of water lapping and birds singing at the canal. #LifesBetterByWater

Do you think you know more about the fish you catch in our canals and rivers than the average GCSE #biologystudent? 🎣 Find out by taking our fish #biology quiz - canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-wate…

Great to see that staycations will be on the up this year. Great opportunity to try our inland waterways @CRTBoating #lifesbetterbywater

Mornin'. Always a good start to the day when you wake up to this. #fridaymorning #boatsthattweet #GoodMorningTwitterWorld #goodmorning

Thanks to players of @PostcodeLottery we’ve received support from its #PostcodeClimateChallenge initiative. This will go to support our #PlasticsChallenge and have an impact in helping reduce plastics in our waterways 🌍 Find out more 👉 canalrivertrust.org.uk/news-and-views…

One week tomorrow until our next #SevernSeries talk - all about the amazing & diverse fish in our river #FishOfTheSevern With #BSL #BSLinterpretation unlockingthesevern.co.uk/calendar-event…

I have, could you? Those causing plastic litter on our waterways are in a minority - if everyone else picks up even one piece of litter each time we visit our local waterways, the towpaths would be litter-free, meaning less plastic in the water and so less washing out to sea.