Quality angling in Waterville is a valuable local amenity and an important tourism product.

Throughout the summer and autumn months the group carry out river and spawning bed enhancement measures. This is vital to the fishery in maintenance of the population of salmon and trout species.

It is the objective of the group to protect the catchments remaining pristine rivers and restore degraded habitat where possible.

Good spawning habitat for sea trout and salmon is made up of loose gravel and cobble beds in the streams and rivers.

The group have set up an enhancement programme to clean up and loosen the gravels beds on which the seatrout and salmon spawn each winter. The measures include removing overgrown plants from the river bed annually allowing fish to migrate freely.