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Stinchar Tributary Electrofishing Surveys
With one team electrofishing on the Girvan catchment the other team made an early start and headed down to the Stinchar valley to monitor a handful of tributary sites yesterday. Year to year populations fluctuate for a variety of reasons not least due to the...
Green Bank Engineering – Solving Diffuse Pollution Problems
On the way back up the Girvan catchment yesterday, we stopped in the middle reaches to check progress of our green bank engineering that was installed in April 2016. This area of the Girvan contributed tonnes of silt and fine sediment to the river each year and had a...
Translocating fry
Last year we translocated wild salmon fry on the Girvan from high density areas to tributary sites lacking salmon. There were no underlying problems to address other than a lack of salmon spawning in these burns. This could be as a result of declining numbers...
The Clean Up Tarbolton Woods Campaign event.
We attended the Clean Up Tarbolton Woods Campaign event at Montgomerie Castle on the Fail this afternoon. I was pleased to see so many local families turn out and enjoy the activities that CUTWC had laid on. Burgers were available and enjoyed by all. The burn didn't...
Developing an Environment Strategy for Scotland
I noticed one of our neighboring Trust's post this link yesterday evening and I would urge our readers to respond to this consultation document. Developing an Environment Strategy for Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/06/4147/downloads This is an...
Giant Hogweed Control – 10 years on
There are always lessons to learn from everything we do and while we've felt that we are making progress with controlling Giant Hogweed in Ayrshire, 2018 will go down as a difficult and disappointing year as for the first time since 2011, The Irvine and Garnock...
Invitation To Tender. Sevenacres Weir Fish Pass, Lugton Water, Kilwinning: Construction Phase
Ayrshire Rivers Trust in partnership with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency are commissioning a project to help deliver a solution to fish passage problems at in-river barriers in Ayrshire. This invitation to tender is for the construction phase to be...
Water of Fail and Montgomerie Woods
The Water of Fail hasn't featured much on our pages in the last few years and there's a reason for that. Despite it being the second largest tributary of the Ayr up from the sea (after the Coyle) and 14 miles from the harbour, it suffers from bad water quality and its...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
