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Cummock Burn Fencing
In 2003, ART arranged fencing for the Cummock Burn at Dalmellington, upstream of Sillyhole Bridge where livestock were causing problems with enrichment and erosion. This fencing has been a great success over the years but due to previous straightening of the burn, it...
Kilkerran Bank Stabilisation
Kilkerran on the Girvan will be the venue for our bank stabilisation event this coming Saturday at 10am (16/04/16). All are welcome and the aim is to show anglers how simple green methods can be used to reduce erosion. Of course at such large erosion points as at...
Smolt Trap at Loch Doon
After checking the smolt trap at Loch Doon this morning and only finding a single brown trout and about 20 toads, we decided to lift it and try again next week. Of course there's a risk that the smolts have already passed by as we found quite a few when electrofishing...
Volunteer Day: Green Engineering at Kilkerran (Water of Girvan) 16th April 2016
Last year we reported on major erosion on the Girvan catchment at Kilkerran. You can view the blog post by clicking on the link. To help combat this, we will hold a volunteer day on Saturday the 16th of April and we hope to welcome volunteers willing to lend a hand...
Culroy Weir erosion
The weir behind Minnishant on the Culroy Burn isn't a complete barrier to migration but I've no doubt that it stopped some fish from progressing upstream and it was on our list for some improvements in the next year or two. At well over 1m high and 10m long and built...
River Doon DSFB meetings
The next River Doon DSFB meetings will take place as below. Date of Meetings: Friday 22nd April 2016 Venue: Frazer Coogans Limited, Dalblair House, 46 Dalblair Road, Ayr KA7 1UQ Times: 3.30pm Board Meeting 4.45pm – AGM & Public Meeting.
Update on the work at Loch Doon
When we arrived to continue our salmon tagging on Thursday morning, Carrick Lane was still low and fishable despite some overnight rain so we quickly secured another sample of salmon pre smolts from the burn. Tagging is time consuming due to all the recording we are...
PIT tagging salmon
As part of the management project focusing on identifying migration and survival issues in the Doon catchment above Loch Doon dam, we were there this afternoon to capture salmon parr and pre smolts then insert Passive Integrated Transponders (PIT Tags). We would...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
