Other fish life includes schools of short-finned eel, river blackfish, pouched lampreys, mullet and common galaxias.
The key question is whether the migratory fish—salmon, sea trout, shad, eels and lamprey—will or will not be able to get up and down the river past the barrage.
As regards migratory fish, sea trout, smelt, eels and elvers, lampreys and lamperns, shad and flounders have recently been recorded there.
The barrage will constitute a major obstruction both to the upstream and downstream passage of migratory fish, including salmon, sea trout, shad, eels and lamprey.
He says that, "it is not accepted that the barrage will adversely affect the migration of salmon, sea trout, twaite, shad, eels and lamprey".
The predators are not only eels and lampreys but brown trout.
It used to have everything, from salmon to shrimps and lampreys and goodness knows what else.
Whether solely ipsilateral projections from a collothalamic component of the dorsal thalamus to the striatum are present in lampreys, as they are in amphibians, remains to be investigated.
