Culroy Burn Minnishant

We surveyed fish on the Culroy Burn (near Minnishant in South Ayrshire) at a couple of sites today ahead of the fencing and bank stabilisation works going ahead in the next week or two. We will fish another site immediately downstream of the work next week. This...

Doon survey

We were out surveying an area on the Doon today looking at the potential impacts of development on the fish and Fresh Water Pearl Mussel population. While it isn’t in a spawning area and fry numbers weren’t expected to be notable, there were a few fry...

Giant Hogweed Control – Update

We have been receiving a few calls about giant hogweed over the past week so i though it best that we update everyone on our progress across Ayrshire. Contractors are currently working their way up the Annick Water so should be approaching Stewarton over the next day...

Ayr Electrofishing

Timed surveys got underway today starting on the upper River Ayr. We did’t get started until late morning due to a problem that came up however we decided to head straight to the upper catchment as it seemed most likely to have lower water levels than elsewhere...