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...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 11, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Yesterday we were on the Duisk (Stinchar catchment) continuing with the Government surveys. Despite the rain we got another couple completed with reasonable numbers of juvenile salmonids recorded at both sites. The heavy afternoon and overnight rain has swept away...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 28, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
With Stuart giving a tour of various barriers and barrier easements across the Irvine catchment to a host of SEPA officials myself and Muir were in the Doon catchment completing electrofishing and invertebrate sampling on a number of tributaries. Whilst the...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 22, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, fishing, General
With one team electrofishing on the Girvan catchment the other team made an early start and headed down to the Stinchar valley to monitor a handful of tributary sites yesterday. Year to year populations fluctuate for a variety of reasons not least due to the...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 8, 2018 | Conservation, General
I noticed one of our neighboring Trust’s post this link yesterday evening and I would urge our readers to respond to this consultation document. Developing an Environment Strategy for Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/06/4147/downloads This is an...
by Struan Candlish | Apr 30, 2018 | Conservation, General
Click here for the Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics 2017 Season. Apparently catch and release across Scotland is at it’s highest since records begun in 1994 at 84%. Whilst this percentage is high there’s clearly still room for improvement. And with...