A 'FISH pass' allowing salmon, trout and eels to swim upstream could be built at a weir in a Herefordshire river.
The Wye & Usk Foundation is looking to construct the device at the New Mills weir on the River Arrow near Pembridge.
The group has been working to improve fish access to and within the Arrow with a series of passes already in place or planned.
The foundation says the New Mills structure would "allow salmon and trout to pass but only in optimum conditions".
"In addition to salmon and trout, there are other species that need to migrate and the proposed structure includes an eel pass, while the main structure is engineered to allow most species to ascend or descend over a wide range of flows," the group says in a planning application to Herefordshire Council.
Last year a similar structure was given approval at Dayhouse Weir in Kingsland on the River Lugg.
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