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Podcasting with the Farm Advisory Service.
A couple of weeks ago I had the please of speaking with Alex Pirie from the Farm Advisory Service for his podcast 'Thrill of the Hill' the title of our episode being 'When the Rivers Run Free - Restoring our Waterways'. This is our third appearance on the Thrill of...
ART AGM
Our annual general meeting will be held at our offices, 2 Crosshill Cottage, nr Mauchline, KA6 5HJ on the 27th October at 5pm. The AGM is open to members only - if you plan on attending please let us know us know by emailing us at info@ayrshireriverstrust.org. ...
Girvan Tributary Surveys
Over the last couple of weeks we've been carrying out surveys across the Girvan catchment - specifically in the tributaries to understand of how well used the burns were by salmon over the winter last year. We have several reference sites that we try to assess...
Japanese knotweed control on the Stinchar.
We were on the River Stinchar yesterday undertaking a control programme for Japanese knotweed. Annually the Board collects a levy from anglers/angling clubs and syndicates which is then used to facilitate management, projects and monitoring across the catchment to the...
Autumn surveys continue.
No longer can we call our field work 'summer surveys' as the beginning of September saw us officially enter into autumn - a slightly depressing though as only a minute ago it seemed like we were in spring with the rest of the year still ahead of us. But as the nights...
Purclewan Burn Electrofishing
The week before last we were undertaking surveys to assess salmon production across some of the burns in the Doon catchment. One of these surveys was in the upper Purclewan Burn which drains Martnaham Loch and enters the River Doon just downstream of Dalrymple. The...
Monitoring the Recovery of the Brockloch Burn.
Over the last few years we have been actively fencing and improving small burns that were in poor condition and supported fewer fish than they should have. Often after all other attempts to gain improvements through the regulator have failed, we have had to step in...
Summer Surveys
This week we've been in the very upper reaches of tributaries that feed the upper Duisk in the Stinchar catchment. We always look forward to a trip down into the Stinchar Valley as it’s incredibly picturesque however this week we've been dodging incredibly heavy rain...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
