by Struan Candlish | Feb 27, 2019 | Conservation, fishing, General
Often salmon and trout are given greater amounts of attention than our other native fish species, in part due to their popularity amongst anglers and because they are under increasing pressures from a variety of sources. However today we finished the installation of a...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 21, 2019 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
The Government has released the river categorisations having now been passed in Parliament. These gradings will be effectual from April 1st 2019. River Categories are as follows. Irvine -3 Garnock – 2 Ayr – 2 Doon – 2 Girvan – 2 Stinchar...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 18, 2019 | Conservation, General
On Friday of last week Muir and Struan downloaded our remaining temperature data loggers that were placed in the River Ayr catchment as part of Faye Jackson’s PhD to assess changes and trends in water temperature in relation to climate change. These data loggers...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 13, 2019 | Conservation, General
In December last year, Marine Scotland stated that they will be asking fisheries to start recording fishing effort as rod days for salmon fisheries in the 2019 season. Since then a number of questions have arisen. The following document should help answer the various...
by Struan Candlish | Dec 6, 2018 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
Interesting to see that Marine Harvest is having a rebrand, changing their name to Mowi next year. Harking back to their roots, Marine Harvest were originally named Mowi when the company began fish farming in 1964. Since then it became Hydro Seafood under the...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 8, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
On Thursday last week we surveyed the Crailoch Burn at two locations, one was our last site for the Government and the other was a monitoring site for the Stinchar DSFB. Our upper site yielded only trout and the lower site was dominated by salmon. The difference...