River Access - Network Linking conservation activities to sustainable business plans for tourism and resource usage that will last long into the future by:

• Developing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes. For example a water company may want to pay farmers to keep the waters clean at their headwaters, rather than paying for cleanup costs downstream. Or Carbon offset schemes can be developed that genuinely enhance the ecology of a waterway as well as acting to fix carbon.
• Develop Angling and commercial fishing opportunities.
• Develop educational access to observatory and restoration sites.

Fish Stocking, Aquaculture and Genetics - The establishment of regional aquaculture support by means of:

• Collection of samples from migratory stocks of sea trout, salmon, lamprey, shad and smelt to inform management of aquaculture. These will be both from rivers, and at sea.
• Trial ‘cryogenic seed banking’ of valuable representative fish to guard against possible permanent loss (e.g. by the parasite Gyrodactylus salaries)
• Create a database of fish genetics to support best stocking of migratory fish, and understand the underlying genetic population structure of the fish stocks we are trying to support and preserve.

Education and Communication - Assemble and deliver an internationally accredited training programme at a variety of different levels, including:

• Development of a graduate and postgraduate programme for Integrated Water Resources Management
• Interpretation of river rehabilitation for the general public using active discovery methods, including ‘Geo-cache’ to actively engage the public in river restoratio
• The development of a Multi-lingual web portal with accessible material for all levels understanding and engagement, from graduates to the general public, and school age children.