Floating reed rafts
Floating reed rafts are available for installation into existing rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs to improve water quality and improve habitat for birds, amphibians and invertebrates found in naturally occurring reed beds. Reed rafts are also useful for fish breeding and refuge habitat in fisheries which have been degraded by pollution or cormorant predation.
Their modular design is versatile and easy to install in almost any location. Standard rectangular raft units can be connected together on site to form square or rectangular reed beds, or even gently sweeping curves, of 10m² to 2,000+ m², while circular islands of 4m, 5m, 6m, 8m and 12m diameter are also available.
All of our reed rafts can be supplied with wildfowl anti-grazing protection, customised to take account of likely grazing pressure, in the form of perimeter fencing, netted top covers or weld-mesh cages.