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Landward covers Salmon Farming
Last night, BBC2's Landward screened an episode examining the performance of salmon farms in Scotland. I watched the programme with interest along with thousands of anglers concerned about the impact these salmon farms are having on wild Atlantic Salmon stocks in our...
Dyrock problems on the Girvan catchment
On the Dyrock Burn in the Girvan catchment we find salmon in low densities most years but we've never really found as many as we feel should be produced from this watercourse and its tributaries. This year is no different and we were hard pressed to find any salmon at...
Assessing problems in the Stinchar Valley
Today was a long one, but interesting too. Struan and I set off early for the top of the Stinchar to follow up on earlier work and with a few questions we wanted to answer. The weather was closing in as we headed down the road and the sky became darker and darker. We...
Stinchar tributary monitoring
On Thursday last week we surveyed the Crailoch Burn at two locations, one was our last site for the Government and the other was a monitoring site for the Stinchar DSFB. Our upper site yielded only trout and the lower site was dominated by salmon. The difference...
Culroy Burn Kick Sampling
Last week we were pleased to be joined by a work experience student from Marr Secondary School named Calum Beaton. With the pressure on to finish up our electrofishing for the season Calum was able to see first hand what is involved in our survey work. Willing and...
Progress at Sevenacres
After battling with fluctuating water levels for the last few weeks, contractors managed to make progress at the site this week installing 2 temporary inflatable dams and an sand bag barrier at the upper end of the site. This was achieved by cutting 2 holes in the...
Rising water levels on the Lugton
Rain stops play is all too familiar a saying but we in Scotland are used to the weather and while it may be inconvenient, even soul destroying at times, we have to persevere as there's nothing else for it. Work continues unless it absolutely neccesary to stop....
Lugton Barrier easement
Approximately 14 years ago, my predecessor, Brian Shaw commenced the process of increasing awareness of the barrier that was Sevenacres Weir. This dam once had a fish pass on the left bank but that had collapsed many years ago leaving little prospect of salmon and...
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River Map Prints
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