PISCES Conservation Ltd. services

Pisces Conservation carry out a range of survey and monitoring work in the UK and USA, including: Power plant impingement/entrainment issues. Phyto- and zoo-plankton analysis. Power plant biofouling monitoring. Aquatic macroinvertebrate and macrophyte sampling. Terrestrial macrophytes. Rare & scheduled species, e.g. great crested newt, white-clawed crayfish. Electric fishing for fish stock and diversity assessment. Assessment of dredging and other construction or decommissioning impacts. Monitoring of managed retreat and saltmarsh regeneration. Monitoring of gravel pit channel diversion. Supervision of other contractors` biological survey work. Assessment of fish/larvae deterrence and exclusion systems in water intakes. Saline/brackish lagoonal specialist species. Eel monitoring for compliance with the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations, 2009.

Pisces Conservation have many years` experience of ecological issues relating to power generation throughout the UK, Europe and the USA including: Entrainment and impingement, impacts on local fish / crustacean populations. Environmental impact assessment for proposed biomass-fuelled stations on brownfield sites. Phyto- and zoo-plankton monitoring and analysis. Advice on BTA for industry. Screening and protection of water intakes. Heated effluent impacts. Biofouling and biocide use. Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD). Water use issues. Acid rain. Land take, habitat mitigation and restoration. Effects of underwater structures, dams & weirs, and small hydro-electric plants. Fly ash disposal. Biological issues relating to cooling towers. Eel monitoring for compliance with the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations, 2009.

Pisces Conservation will provide expert environmental statement work for developments throughout the UK, Europe and the USA, varying from small marina developments to multi-million pound power generation and port projects. We have now completed EIA chapters on aquatic ecology, thermal modelling, BAP species, biocide use and impingement / entrainment for 10 proposed biomass power stations on brownfield sites around the UK. We have also recently contributed an assessment of local fishery resources and the likelihood of impingement and entrainment for a proposed large nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi.

Pisces Conservation have acted as expert witnesses on a wide range of legal, planning and consent issues throughout the UK and USA, for both industry and environmental NGOs, including: Effects of power plant impingement, entrainment and thermal effluent discharge. Effects of construction noise and dredging for port development. Effects of water abstraction. Fisheries issues, e.g. salmon & trout migration. Pollution incidents. We also offer advice and consultancy on natural history broadcasting, specialising in the ecology of the Amazon.

Pisces Conservation can provide analysis of ecological data and bespoke modelling of population dynamics for a wide range of purposes, including: Thermal effluent effects. Passage of migratory fish. Impingement and entrainment in CW intakes. We have now completed EIA chapters on aquatic ecology, thermal modelling, BAP species, biocide use and impingement / entrainment for 10 proposed biomass power stations on brownfield sites around the UK, including full CORMIX modelling of effluent plumes.

Pisces Conservation staff have considerable experience of issues relating to port development and maintenance throughout the UK, including: Dredging, Noise and vibration, Fisheries issues, Water abstraction, Contamination and sediment dispersal issues.

In addition to off-the-shelf software packages for students and researchers, Pisces have many years` experience in writing software to individual clients` specifications.