ART conducts research on all manner of riparian issues, primarily; invasive weed control, native plant regrowth, water quality, fish populations, salmon egg survival, river habitat.
Fishing
ART work alongside District Salmon Fishing Boards, Angling Clubs, local businesses, and riparian owners to provide advice and encourage responsible management across all catchments.
Education
ART are keen to engage the youth of today by providing environmental education to primary school children. ART have run a number of projects to date, and hope to secure funding for education in 2014.
Conservation
All of ART's work and projects revolve around conservation of Ayrshire's riparian habitats and the species they support. See the above tab for more details.
The Rivers of Ayrshire
Major Rivers in the catchment:
River Ayr, River Doon, River Girvan, River Stinchar, River Garnock, River Irvine
The aim of the Trust is to promote and support initiatives designed to conserve, enhance and develop our fisheries and rivers for the enjoyment of both current and future generations.
We achieve our objectives by providing advice, carrying out research, and practical skills to protect and enhance the freshwater rivers and their surrounding habitat.
There are also several smaller watercourses, including the Gogar Water and Noddsdale Burn in North Ayrshire, the Pow Burn between the Ayr and the Irvine and the Water of Lendal in South Ayrshire.
A short film about salmon spawning on the Girvan and Stinchar, south-west Scotland, Ayrshire. With water levels and temperatures both falling, the salmon wasted no time in getting on with […]More
On Sunday evening BBC’s Countryfile aired a report on the challenges facing the Scottish salmon industry. In the last completed production cycle there was a 26% mortality rate of farmed […]More
It’s been a hectic few weeks for the staff at ART as we’ve been heavily involved in scale sampling, electrofishing, crayfish monitoring and worst of all, moving office at a […]More
Fishery Management Scotland has just published a new guide to show how to identify farmed salmon. 200908-Aqua-Guidance-for-Anglers Our own video can can be viewed by following this link o the […]More
This link below takes you to a short video showing key things to look for when you catch a fish and how to identify if its a Farmed Salmon. With […]More
On Sunday evening BBC's Countryfile aired a report on the challenges facing the Scottish salmon industry. In the last completed production cycle there was a 26% mortality rate of farmed salmon and i[...]
This morning we headed to the Girvan catchment to see how our green engineering at Kilkerran was holding up. We installed several different techniques at Kilkerran to stabilise two massive erosion po[...]
It's a very windy day out there but we made a trip to the Dusk and Lugton Waters this morning looking for potential green engineering sites.
The Garnock Connections Landscape Partnership Scheme is [...]
ART will hold heir AGM on Wednesday the 4th December at 5.00pm in their office at Auchincruive.
This meeting will be open to members only.
Please let us know if you intend to come as seating is [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ErR00tCig
A short film about salmon spawning on the Girvan and Stinchar, south-west Scotland, Ayrshire. With water levels and temperatures both falling, the salmon[...]
On Sunday evening BBC's Countryfile aired a report on the challenges facing the Scottish salmon industry. In the last completed production cycle there was a 26% mortality rate of farmed salmon and i[...]
Fishery Management Scotland has just published a new guide to show how to identify farmed salmon. 200908-Aqua-Guidance-for-Anglers
Our own video can can be viewed by following this link o the[...]
This link below takes you to a short video showing key things to look for when you catch a fish and how to identify if its a Farmed Salmon. With 48,000 fish escaping from Carradale 3 weeks ago, they a[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ErR00tCig
A short film about salmon spawning on the Girvan and Stinchar, south-west Scotland, Ayrshire. With water levels and temperatures both falling, the salmon[...]
We ended the day on the lower Muck Water at Dalmellington where we placed boulders in the site a few years ago to try and improve the habitat for salmon and trout. Placing boulders is not something we[...]
The third week in July is the week we always commence timed electrofishing surveys across the 4 District Salmon Fishery Board controlled rivers. We do this as part of the work we deliver for the DSFBs[...]
We often hear complaints that there are no trout in the Ayr despite what we would consider to be a reasonably healthy population. The calls we hear in support of stocking aren't unique to the Ayr and [...]
I've spent this evening getting Crayfish traps ready for use. It's incredible that the most widely used traps on the market don't catch the tiny juvenile crayfish as their mesh size is too big. [...]
Despite the miserable weather on Friday of last week, Muir and I headed off to the Annick Water this morning to complete two more sites for the National Electrofishing Programme. Results were poor but[...]
We have received a report that a non-native Pacific pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha has been caught on the lower River Irvine. This has still to be confirmed but if you are confident you have caugh[...]
Today we were faced with the unenviable job of dealing with giant hogweed flowers that had set seed at Tarbolton Landfill. The land surrounding the landfill is criss crossed with old field drains and [...]
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