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Pundeavon survey
After terrible weather this week caused us to delay the Pundeavon survey, this morning's forecast was correct and the sun was out and the wind had died to a light breeze. Perfect. The survey was necessary to identify the fish species present in advance of the planned...
River Doon Compensation Flow
A Notice To All Concerned I had a call today from Scottish Power to advise that the compensation flow released from Loch Doon will be cut off for a couple of hours on Friday 19th April. The fish pass will remain open. This will be between 11am and 1pm to allow a...
Fenwick Water fish kill
This evening I received a call from Sam Hudson informing me that fish had been killed on the Fenwick Water in the area where we stocked the fish rescued from Kilmarnock Water in March. SEPA were called but unfortunately he duty officer was in East Kilbride and by the...
Fenwick Water fish kill * UPDATED *
This evening I received a call from Sam Hudson informing me that fish had been killed on the Fenwick Water in the area where we stocked the fish rescued from Kilmarnock Water in March. SEPA were called but unfortunately he duty officer was in East Kilbride and by the...
ART Quiz night 2013
On Friday night ART held it's second annual Quiz Night. Around 60 people descended on Ayr Rugby club to engage in a battle of wits and general knowledge and help raise some funds for Trust. 14 teams entered the competition which was chaired by quiz master Wallace...
Utilities need to improve their biosecurity
Last year we reported in this blog, that a Scottish Water sub contractor had dug up Japanese Knotweed while carrying out essential work. Of course there are times this has to happen but those involved should at least know how to deal with this plant if it's present....
Doon egg trials
The egg trials on the Doon were concluded today when we lifted and examined the boxes that had been in the river since January. We decided to run this trial to answer questions raised about the lack of fish spawning in certain areas and also to see what impact diffuse...
Further egg studies
As promised we headed back to finish lifting our egg boxes on the Ayr catchment today. We started with the Whitehaugh Burn that we also thought may produce good results but I fear we picked a site too low down this burn. The fields either side of the site were...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
