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NEPS Completed!

by Struan Candlish | Sep 12, 2023 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General | 0 Comments

We completed our last NEPS (National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland) site on Friday afternoon last week. The Programme has us survey 30 sites randomly generated to prevent operative selection bias. These surveys are always interesting due to the random nature...

Trust replaces their old van

by Laura Borthwick | Jul 26, 2023 | General | 0 Comments

Unfortunately nothing last forever and for the second time in 2 years, our oldest Citroen Belingo van snapped a timing belt but this time it was at the start of our field work season leaving us with a terrible dilemma of 'what to do' now. We really need 2 vans year...

Ayr fish counter

by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 24, 2023 | Conservation, General | 0 Comments

Behind the scenes, work continues on the counter every week with our staff cleaning the equipment and downloading more data. Processing and verifying this data all takes a huge amount of time and while may not pick up every fish that goes through it yet, eventually we...

eDNA sampling at Loch Doon

by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 18, 2023 | General | 0 Comments

We completed the much delayed eDNA sampling at Loch Doon today but had the good fortune to have almost wind free conditions. Having virtually no wind was great from a safety perspective but in true Ayrshire fashion, there was a bit of wet weather to contend with but...

Fishery Management Scotland Recording Apps for download and use.

by Struan Candlish | Jun 26, 2023 | Conservation, General, Invasives | 0 Comments

Greening the banks of the Water of Girvan – Project update

by Laura Borthwick | Jun 26, 2023 | Conservation, General | 0 Comments

Our Greening the banks of the Water of Girvan Project was developed to expand upon the successful green engineering work that was started in 2016. This project will focus on a degraded stretch of the middle catchment which suffers from historic and recent land...

Sorn Castle Dam fish pass upgrade on the River Ayr

by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 16, 2023 | Conservation, fishing | 0 Comments

Sorn Castle Dam has long been a concern for salmonid migration having an incomplete Larinier fish pass that was virtually impossible for fish to use. There were no ideal alternatives for lower flow conditions leaving fish struggling to get over if they missed the...

Brash Bundling Volunteer Session Monday 12th June

by Struan Candlish | Jun 6, 2023 | Conservation, Events, General | 0 Comments

We have moved the brash bundling session we had scheduled for tomorrow (Friday 9th) to Monday 12th June at 1000. If you would like to come and help build brash bundles with us then please let us know by commenting on this post as we do have limited capacity. If you...