Students from Sparsholt College joined Sussex IFCA Officers for a #smallfishsurvey at East Head.
Using a seine net, they learned fish monitoring techniques, catching Golden grey mullet and juvenile Brown trout.
#sussex_ifca #Chichesterharbour #fishsurvey #sussex
In the background is an orange sky with dark clouds, over a muddy estuary. There are yellow flowers on the foreground.
It was cloudy but very mild, and the sky put on a little show at the end of the afternoon. A nice couple of hours doing Low Tide Counts for @webs-gsmp.bsky.social in #ChichesterHarbour.
Sussex IFCA Officers have installed new #HandGatheringByelaw signs in #Chichesterharbour. The byelaw sets bag limits, permit requirements, and added MPA protections to support sustainable use of intertidal habitats within the #Sussex district.
sussex-ifca.gov.uk/regulations
Trees Wirth exposed roots on the shore of Chichester Harbour. A scatter of red clay is visible amid the screen of the seaweed.
Fragments of Roman tile from the adjacent Roman tilery site, tangled up in the tree roots, Chichester Harbour.
#RomanSiteSaturday I've posted these before, but they're maybe worth another outing. Nothing obviously Roman here at first sight, on the foreshore of #ChichesterHarbour. However, tangled up among the tree roots are lumps of Roman tile, from an adjacent tilery site.
The site of Chitty and Vernon's former 1740s shipyard at Itchenor on Chichester Harbour. Nothing of the yard is now visible, but it lay between the house on the left and the laid-up yachts in the distance. The yard had at least two launching slips.
HMS Hind was built at Itchenor on #ChichesterHarbour, W Sussex, one of 4 warships constructed in the 1740s by Chitty & Vernon. Nothing of the yard is now visible, but it lay between the house & yachts. It was used intermittently until early 1800s & in 1780s built 2 huge Eastindiamen #MaritimeHistory
Is there any data on escape attempts by French PoWs in England during the 1793-1815? Came across a Dec 1809 case where 9 of them drilled a hole in a Portsmouth prison hulk, stole 1 boat, got driven ashore, then 5 stole a boat at Emsworth, #ChichesterHarbour, got lost & were recaptured at Itchenor!
Birch Copse, Itchenor to West Wittering Coastal Path, West Sussex, England.
#photography #coastline #coast #wild #nature #coastalpath #copse #itchenor #westwittering #westsussex #walk #chichesterharbour d4282cnat
Trees in Salterns Copse, Chichester Harbour. The name 'Salterns' comes from the 18th/19th-century saltworks that once stood on the site now occupied by Chichester Marina.
The old saltworks, Copperas Point and Birdham Mill (L-shaped building marked 'Mill') on Yeakell and Gardener's 1778-1783 map of Sussex. The main Harbour channel can be seen towards the top left. Salterns Copse is between the Salterns and Copperas Point.
Aerial view of Chichester Marina from the east, 2011. The outline of the Marina preserves the boundaries of the old saltworks, and Salterns Copse is the triangular wood to the right of it (photo copyright Ian Friel 2011).
Sorry- photos were taken in 2007, as was this one of Salterns Copse! I still live locally tho', & continue to be fascinated by the history of #ChichesterHarbour. According to a mid-C19 source, smugglers used to hide goods in the Copse. 'Salterns' refers to the nearby old saltworks (now the Marina).
Great image! The Coastguard also used old warships - eg 1831 to c1856 gunbrig HMS Griper (went to the Arctic 1823/24) moored at the mouth of #ChichesterHarbour 1841: ship was home to 50+ people- Coastguards & wives & children #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory CG combatted smuggling & undertook rescues
Tree routes with what looks orange clay mixed in among them.
A fragment of a Roman tile among the tree roots.
#TilesOnTuesday The orange stuff tangled in the tree routes on the foreshore in #ChichesterHarbour (West Sussex, UK) near Dell Quay comes from eroded Roman tile wasters, discarded from an adjacent Roman tileworks (partly excavated, but exact date uncertain).
There's evidence that oysters cultivated in #ChichesterHarbour were being consumed @romanpalace.bsky.social at Fishbourne in the Roman period, I believe. The oysters in the photo are not from the Roman era, but probably came from 19th-cent oyster ponds in the Harbour at nearby Bosham.
More than 100 chemicals polluting South harbours - study
#Hampshire #WestSussex #Study #SewageSpills #LangstoneHarbour #ChichesterHarbour #ChemicalPollution #BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A view along the canal, with modern houseboats on the right. Part of the stonework of the lock structure is visible lower left.
View looking along #Chichester Canal, from Salterns Lock, where it enters #ChichesterHarbour. Just under 4 miles long, opened in 1822 & saw its last commercial cargo in 1906. Partly navigable now from Chichester end, but this part is home to houseboats, moorhen & swans.
The hill on the left-hand side of the photo is the Trundle, which is topped by a large Iron Age hillfort, but was also the site of a Neolithic enclosure. The white feature to the right of the Trundle is the viewing stand at Goodwood Racecourse. The quay in the middle ground is Dell Quay, formerly the only legal quay for foreign trade in Chichester Harbour, and once the de facto port of the city of Chichester.
#HillfortsWednesday The hill dominating the left of this photo is the Trundle, the #SouthDowns site of an Iron Age hillfort overlooking the coastal plain and #ChichesterHarbour, where this photo was taken. Dell Quay is in the middle ground (photo taken in 2007).
Great to see this initiative to revive the oyster population in #ChichesterHarbour. I wrote a study of the local oyster fishery's history in 2020 for Sussex IFCA - pdf available for anyone interested - a story of enterprise, environmental damage & class conflict!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A series of low banks running across a small bay near Prinsted (Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, UK. At first sight it looks like the remains of a causeway, but the line is broken in places, and the banks may have been used to give some protection to manmade oyster ponds that once existed here. The Harbour once had a thriving oyster fishery, and there were many oyster ponds. These were used to keep oysters alive after they had been dredged from the seabed. The ponds were very shallow, and this made it easier to collect the shellfish when they were being sent to market.
Series of banks across a small bay near Prinsted on #ChichesterHarbour (West Sussex, UK), seen today. May not look much, but were apparently built between about 1780 and 1840. Possibly used to shelter oyster ponds that once existed photo R. Harbour's full of interesting historical puzzles!
