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Adders abound!
Over the last few weeks we have been up at Loch Doon on a daily basis checking our smolt trap. An increasingly common site are adders (we've seen one every day this week). Adders are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and are a UK Biodiversity...
Kayak Training Day
Today was the Kayak training day. Four of us headed to Castle Semple Loch this morning to go through some Kaya safety training to ensure Health and Safety compliance when performing bird counts on the rivers. Unfortunately we had to leave Gillian behind manning the...
Catrine Smolt Trap on the river Ayr
Smolt trapping to assess the effectiveness of migration at the Catrine Dam Hydro system well underway, so far there not been many fish in the trap. This new and until recently untested trap is not a conventional design and getting smolts into the trap has been easier...
Smolt Trapping
Another busy day today with 2 smolt traps in action at present. That's quite a commitment from a small organisation such as ART as the two traps are approximately 30 miles apart and each requires a daily visit from the team. The Loch Doon trap isn't likely to produce...
River Ayr District Salmon Fishery Board Meeting
The next River Ayr District Salmon Fishery Board Meeting will take place on the 2nd May 2017 at Ayrshire Rivers Trust's office at 7.00pm. This meeting is open to the public.
Lugar Erosion
I would like to see progress being made in this location as over the years I've been with the Trust I've seen thousands of tonnes off soil disappear down the Lugar water from this site. Most of this erosion could have been prevented but historic straightening in the...
Girvan Volunteers Required
Ahead of this years smolt run we are looking to hold a volunteer morning or afternoon to remove a timber blockage on the Dyrock Burn (a tributary of the River Girvan) downstream of the sewage treatment works near Kirkmichael. Our concern is that this blockage is...
Loch Doon smolt monitoring
As part of the work we are doing at Loch Doon to assess the migration of salmon through the loch and fish pass, we were there again this week setting a fyke net trap and performing some electrofishing to secure a representative sample of what's there. This research...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
