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...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 8, 2018 | Conservation, General
Last week we were pleased to be joined by a work experience student from Marr Secondary School named Calum Beaton. With the pressure on to finish up our electrofishing for the season Calum was able to see first hand what is involved in our survey work. Willing and...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 11, 2018 | General
To all the Trusts across Scotland, Sean Dugan who is employed by Fisheries Management Scotland and manages the Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre is well known for the tremendous work he does. Sean is currently in Greenland as part of the sampling team who are...