Acknowledgements

The interim Strategy document was developed by the Steering Group and their specialist contractors and consultants involved with the River Itchen Sustainability Study.

UK and international experts involved with key aspects of the Study's conservation status assessment and development of low flow targets include the following:

• Ecology - Dr Nigel Holmes
• Fisheries - Dr David Solomon
• Groundwater Assessments - Professor Paul Younger, Professor John Lloyd and Entec (UK)
• Water Quality - Dr John West
• Southern Damsefly DNA studies - Dr David Thompson
• Otter DNA studies - Dr Paul Chanin and Dr David Stirling
• Wet Grassland modelling - Dr David Gowing
• Numerous specialists sub consultants and contractors involved with fieldwork and mathematical modelling including CEH Wallingford (fish habitat modelling), CEH Monks Wood (Dr Richard Shore - Otter/Eel tissue bio-accumulation studies), Kevin Exley (macro-invertebrates) and Dr Adrian Fewings (fish migration modelling)

In addition, the following organisations and individuals contributed to discussion of the issues and how they should be addressed by the interim Strategy.

• Test & Itchen Association
• Watercress Growers Association
• Southampton City Council
• Highways Agency
• and other stakeholders too numerous to mention

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