by Struan Candlish | Jan 23, 2018 | Conservation, General
Here’s a link to an interesting article concerning animals recently treated with flea controlling chemicals. These treatments contain chemicals that have been found to be entering watercourses having harmful effects on fish as well as invertebrates. Of great...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 15, 2018 | Conservation, fishing, General
Myself and Muir took a trip out to get images of Sundrum Falls (aka Ness Linn) on the Coyle on Friday afternoon. We have a photograph dating back to the late 1960s of the falls (see below). The top photo shows the falls some 25/30 meters further...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 12, 2018 | Conservation, General
If you’re out and about on the river banks over the next couple of months keep an eye out for the Brachytera putata, Northern February red stonefly, a species only found in Scottish watercourses. Craig Macadam of Buglife Scotland is mapping the locations of...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 10, 2018 | General
ART’s AGM will be held at 8pm on the 23rd January 2018 in our offices at Auchincruive, Ayr. Our Trustees meeting will be held prior to the AGM at 7pm. Please don’t arrive before 8pm as there won’t be access to our offices. All ART members are welcome to...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 23, 2017 | Conservation, General
We are keeping a close eye on how the willow spiling we installed at Tarholm on the Ayr is developing since we completed this work just under 1 month ago. It is incredible to see how much silt is being deposited with each spate. The photos below illustrate the change...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 23, 2017 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
On Thursday of last week myself and Muir were on the Ayr catchment carrying out electrofishing surveys on three tributaries of the upper Ayr. Our first port of call was the Ponesk, we began above the modified section to assess if salmon had made it this far up the...