Editing Humber (section)

==Ecology==
The Humber is home both to resident fish and those returning from the sea to their spawning grounds in Yorkshire,<ref>{{cite web |title=Salmon are spawning along the River Burn in North Yorkshire for the first time in 100 years |url=https://www.theriverstrust.org/2017/06/21/salmon-spawning-along-river-burn-north-yorkshire-first-time-100-years/ |website=The Rivers Trust |access-date=23 March 2019 |date=21 June 2017 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402110822/https://www.theriverstrust.org/2017/06/21/salmon-spawning-along-river-burn-north-yorkshire-first-time-100-years/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Lincolnshire]] and [[Derbyshire]]. [[Salmon]], [[Sole (fish)|sole]], [[cod]], [[eel]], [[flounder]], [[plaice]], [[sprat]], [[lamprey]] and [[sand goby]] have all been caught within the estuary.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Potts |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Swaby |first2=Silja |title=Review of the status of estuarine fishes |journal=English Nature Research Report |date=1993 |issue=34 |pages=68–69 |publisher=Marine Biological Association |location=Plymouth |oclc=182887652}}</ref> It is also used by over-wintering birds,<ref>{{cite web |title=Humber Management Scheme Fact sheet: Wintering and passage birds |url=http://www.humbernature.co.uk/admin/resources/wintering-and-passage-birds-fact-sheet.pdf |website=humbernature.co.uk |access-date=23 March 2019 |page=2 }}</ref> is a good breeding ground for [[bitterns]], [[marsh harrier]]s, [[little tern]]s and [[avocets]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Humber Management Scheme Fact sheet: Breeding birds |url=http://www.humbernature.co.uk/admin/resources/breeding-birds-fact-sheet.pdf |website=humbernature.co.uk |access-date=23 March 2019 |pages=4–6 }}</ref> and forms part of the [[Severn-Trent flyway]], a route used by [[bird migration|migratory birds]] to cross [[Great Britain]].<ref name="WtgW">{{cite book |title=RSPB Where To Go Wild in Britain |date=2009 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |isbn=978-1405335126 |page=265}}</ref>

In 2019 the [[Yorkshire Wildlife Trust]] and the [[University of Hull]] re-introduced the [[oyster|river oyster]]{{which|date=July 2024}} into the Humber after a sixty-year absence.<ref>{{cite news |title=River oysters come back out of their shell|editor-last=Mitchinson|editor-first=James |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=19 March 2019 |page=1|issn=0963-1496}}</ref>