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Kilmarnock Water Fish Rescue

by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 5, 2013 | Conservation, Electrofishing, fishing, General | 1 Comment

Low water and sunshine were the order of the day at Kilmarnock Water today as the team set about removing as many fish as possible from the town stretch where the contractors MBV, are about to recommence the storm water overflow works. MBV had a terrible time last...

Pre tender meeting – CIRB project – Directions

by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 4, 2013 | General | 0 Comments

As mentioned in my last post, the pre tender meeting will take place on Wednesday the 6th March at 2pm at the Ayrshire Rivers Trust offices. Directions can be found by clicking here

CIRB Tenders 2013 and pre tender meeting

by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 1, 2013 | General, Invasives | 0 Comments

Our tenders have now been verified and are available to download below. We have arranged the Pre-Tender meeting to take place on Wednesday 6th March 2013. This will be in at ART offices which are located in the Engineering Department, Donald Hendrie Building,...

Culroy Burn

by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 28, 2013 | Conservation, fishing, General | 0 Comments

Following up on the surveys we undertook on the Culroy Burn last year, I decided to take a look at it today on my way back from a farm visit. We recently had a report of American Signal Crayfish on this burn. Although a bit early in the season yet, I thought I would...

CIRB 2013 – Pre-Tender Meeting and Tender information

by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 27, 2013 | General | 0 Comments

The tenders for the control of Invasive Non Native Species will be available to download from here in the next few days. We have arranged for the Pre-Tender meeting to take place on Wednesday the 6th of March. This will be held at ART offices which are located in the...

Doon Levels

by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 26, 2013 | General | 0 Comments

I received a message today from a concerned Doon owner about the 'supposed winter compensation flow'. The river was well down on where it should be at this time of the year and he was concerned that the calibration was incorrect. He was right and wrong at the same...

Another one bites the dust!

by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 26, 2013 | General | 1 Comment

The Cronin Building at Auchincruive is in the process of being demolished. ART's first office was in this building was way back in the early days. I first met Brian and Pete there in 2005 when I was a student at Auchincruive and it was with a tinge of sadness that I...

Pundeavon Reservoir

by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 25, 2013 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General | 0 Comments

We were at Pundeavon Reservoir today to work out how best to survey the fish and habitat prior to Scottish Water removing the dam wall. This redundant reservoir is no longer fit for purpose and if left as a fishery would increasingly pose a flooding risk to the...