News
Water of Girvan Habitat Restoration Project – Volunteers Required!
Last year we secured grant funding from North Carrick Community Benefit Fund, D'Oyly Carte Charitable Fund, Girvan Salmon Fishery Board, a landowner and the Patagonia World Trout Initiative to continue our work stabilising eroding sections of river banks in an effort...
Ayrshire Riparian Woodland Project: Eadha Enterprises.
Yesterday Eadha Enterprises began the delivery of it's Ayrshire Riparian Woodland Project in conjunction with ART. This is a fantastic project that teaches the pupils about the importance of riparian woodlands and the ecological interactions between rivers and...
Annbank Primary School Community Picnic Event
On Friday afternoon we were kindly invited along to Annbank Primary for their Community Picnic. And what an afternoon we had, the weather was excellent as was the turnout by pupils and parents. The Trust is always happy to participate in events like this...
River Stinchar DSFB AGM
The clerk to the Stinchar DSFB asked we post this announcement ahead of the Board meeting and AGM. Apologies for such short notice, the original message was overlooked in our inbox and only noticed today. The details are as follows:- Date of...
Kingswell Burn Fish Rescue
This morning Gillian, Muir and myself were at the Kingswell Burn just downstream of Soames Fishery to carry out a fish rescue for Scottish Water. Following a site induction on Monday morning we decided that the rain was just to heavy to electrofish in..... health and...
Girvan and Stinchar Invasive Plant Species Control – Volunteers Required!
Earlier this year we were awarded £8000 by Tesco’s Bags of Help Fund to support Invasive Weeds control on the Girvan and Stinchar in 2017. Through this project each catchment will be provided with tools, chemical, guidance and support from ART staff in the...
Smolts rising and feeding on Grannom caddis
As normal in May, the Grannom hatch has commenced and this evening I watched smolts rising for these emerging caddis at Catrine on the Ayr. It is both fascinating and worrying as there are still hundreds of smolts in the voes but we are attempting to encourage them...
Smolt sampling at Catrine
We had an afternoon of sampling at Catrine after we stepped in and electrofished those we could from the lade. Currently many smolts are stranded with nowhere to go until modifications to the intake to the smolt trap are completed and proven successful. Our thinking...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
