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Girvan and Stinchar salmon spawning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ErR00tCig A short film about salmon spawning on the Girvan and Stinchar, south-west Scotland, Ayrshire. With water levels and temperatures both falling, the salmon wasted no time in getting on with the job of spawning. Enjoy!
ART on Countryfile.
On Sunday evening BBC's Countryfile aired a report on the challenges facing the Scottish salmon industry. In the last completed production cycle there was a 26% mortality rate of farmed salmon and in August alone 48,834 farmed fish escaped into the natural environment...
ART move to a new rural office location
It's been a hectic few weeks for the staff at ART as we've been heavily involved in scale sampling, electrofishing, crayfish monitoring and worst of all, moving office at a really inconvenient time of the year. This was forced on us by new owners at Auchincruive who...
More guidance to identify Farmed salmon
Fishery Management Scotland has just published a new guide to show how to identify farmed salmon. 200908-Aqua-Guidance-for-Anglers Our own video can can be viewed by following this link o the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwKwPv1yGBM&t=94s
How to identify a Farmed Salmon
This link below takes you to a short video showing key things to look for when you catch a fish and how to identify if its a Farmed Salmon. With 48,000 fish escaping from Carradale 3 weeks ago, they are beginning to turn up in our rivers and they pose a huge threat to...
Advice on what to do if you catch a farmed salmon
Here's a link to the latest guidance produced by collaboration with stakeholders such as ART, Fisheries Trusts and District Salmon Fishery Boards, FHI and MSS and published by Fishery management Scotland....
Preparing for Crayfish Surveys
I've spent this evening getting Crayfish traps ready for use. It's incredible that the most widely used traps on the market don't catch the tiny juvenile crayfish as their mesh size is too big. Scientific studies elsewhere have shown a significant increase in...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
