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More guidance to identify Farmed salmon

On September 8, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
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 film.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwKwPv1yGBM&t=94s 
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How to identify a Farmed Salmon

On September 5, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
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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 are beginning to turn up in our rivers and they pose a huge threat to wild [...]
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Advice on what to do if you catch a farmed salmon

On August 31, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
Here’s a link to the latest guidance produced by collaboration with stakeholders such as ART, Fisheries  Trusts and District Salmon Fishery Boards, FHI and MSS and published by Fishery management Scotland. http://fms.scot/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200825-Aqua-Guidance-on-escapees.pdf  
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Preparing for Crayfish Surveys

On August 28, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
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. Scientific studies elsewhere have shown a significant increase in effectiveness is achieve by covering the traps in a 1/4″ mesh. I’ve [...]
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fencing brings benefits on the Glenstang Burn – River Ayr catchment

On August 28, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
A year or two ago, a simple electric scare fence was erected on the Glenstang Burn near Stair. This prevented cattle accessing the water margin in the bottom half of a field but open grazing remained on the upper section where erosion continued to occurred around trees as cattle sought shelter and drank from the [...]
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Green Engineering on the Girvan _progress since April 2016

On August 28, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
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 points that each stretched over 100m. At the time some suggested that the only way to address this was with rock armour and hard [...]
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Cloyntie Burn in the Girvan catchment

On August 28, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
Another burn and another culvert that causes problems; the Cloyntie Burn in the Girvan catchment is a tributary of the Burnton Burn, a tributary of the Lady Burn joining the Girvan upstream of Kilkerran. We survey this burn periodically and have found salmon upstream of the Barndonna Bridge culvert on one previous occasion but in [...]
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Farmed Salmon reporting form

On August 26, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
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Here is the reporting form that should be completed and returned along with scale samples, photos, location etc for anyone catching an escaped farmed salmon in any Forth of Clyde connected river. It is important that the details within the forms are completed and guidance followed as this should help FMS, DSFBs, Trusts, MSS, FHI [...]
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Carradale Fish Farm Incident

On August 26, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
Here is a link to Fishery Management Scotland’s web site where they provide the latest updates on the massive escape of farmed salmon into theFirth of Clyde. ART staff are working closely with FMS and DSFBs and other Trust to minimise the impacts of this environmental disaster. More information will follow as the situation becomes [...]
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Pollution incident kills fish

On August 16, 2020 By Stuart Brabbs
I don’t want to say too much here as we await SEPA’s response to a pollution incident that occurred in the Girvan catchment yesterday but what I can reveal is that a large number of trout and juvenile salmon have been killed in a tributary. The source of the pollution was traced by ourselves to [...]
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