'Fish pass' allows hundreds of trapped salmon to move upstream in Ludlow - video
Environment Agency officers have been called in to help salmon which have got stuck in the River Teme in Ludlow as they make their way to spawning grounds up stream.
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Large amounts of the fish have got stuck at the Mill Street weir on the River Teme.
The Environment Agency has created a temporary fish pass to allow the fish up and bailiffs have also been watching over the salmon using night vision equipment.
Dave Throup, Environment Agency officer for the south Shropshire and Herefordshire border, said he had been met with a "remarkable spectacle" as hundreds were trying to get over the weir but virtually none succeeding.
He said: "The fish are very vulnerable to poaching or predation when they're like this so we'll be here all night, or as long as it takes.
"This time of year they are full of eggs and spawning so not very nice to eat anyway, but it doesn't seem to put people off."
He said the situation had come about as the weir was the only remaining weir on the stretch of the Teme around Ludlow that had no fish pass.
"The fish are just stuck between weirs," he said.
"We'll be taking a notch out at the end of the weir to let the fish through. It's a temporary fish pass to allow the ones through for this season.
"We did this before in 2005 – but we filled it in again.
"I believe there are plans for a permanent one," he added.
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