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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...
fencing brings benefits on the Glenstang Burn – River Ayr catchment
A year or two ago, a simple electric scare fence was erected on the Glenstang Burn near Stair. This prevented cattle accessing the water margin in the bottom half of a field but open grazing remained on the upper section where erosion continued to occurred around...
Green Engineering on the Girvan _progress since April 2016
This morning we headed to the Girvan catchment to see how our green engineering at Kilkerran was holding up. We installed several different techniques at Kilkerran to stabilise two massive erosion points that each stretched over 100m. At the time some suggested that...
Cloyntie Burn in the Girvan catchment
Another burn and another culvert that causes problems; the Cloyntie Burn in the Girvan catchment is a tributary of the Burnton Burn, a tributary of the Lady Burn joining the Girvan upstream of Kilkerran. We survey this burn periodically and have found salmon upstream...
Farmed Salmon reporting form
Here is the reporting form that should be completed and returned along with scale samples, photos, location etc for anyone catching an escaped farmed salmon in any Forth of Clyde connected river. It is important that the details within the forms are completed and...
Carradale Fish Farm Incident
Here is a link to Fishery Management Scotland's web site where they provide the latest updates on the massive escape of farmed salmon into theFirth of Clyde. ART staff are working closely with FMS and DSFBs and other Trust to minimise the impacts of this environmental...
Pollution incident kills fish
I don't want to say too much here as we await SEPA's response to a pollution incident that occurred in the Girvan catchment yesterday but what I can reveal is that a large number of trout and juvenile salmon have been killed in a tributary. The source of the pollution...
Where we focus our efforts to bring results
It is easy to consider the main rivers as all important, particularly in terms of angling and this is largely true however, the tributaries that feed all Ayrshire rivers are incredibly important in terms of juvenile production for both trout and salmon and it is in...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
