‘Without us, they are doomed’: volunteers save fish from French rivers drying up in heatwaves

The Guardian Environment Saturday 25 July 2026, 06:00 UTC By Kim Willsher 1 min read

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Fish being moved to oxygenated flowing water further downstream as water levels drop across countryAlong the Odet River in Brittany, fisher Mathieu Le Bouter and a dozen volunteers are catching hundreds of trout and young salmon – not for sport but to save them. They are only a few miles from the source of the river, which springs from the Black Mountains in Finistère and runs for about 40 miles (65km) into the Atlantic Ocean, but the water is barely up to their knees.

Fish being moved to oxygenated flowing water further downstream as water levels drop across country

Along the Odet River in Brittany, fisher Mathieu Le Bouter and a dozen volunteers are catching hundreds of trout and young salmon – not for sport but to save them.

They are only a few miles from the source of the river, which springs from the Black Mountains in Finistère and runs for about 40 miles (65km) into the Atlantic Ocean, but the water is barely up to their knees.

French (ORG) the Odet River (LOCATION) Brittany (LOCATION) Mathieu Le Bouter (PERSON) the Black Mountains (LOCATION) Finistère (LOCATION) the Atlantic Ocean (LOCATION)

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