News
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...
More Pollution: Warning: not for the squemish
While out and about over the last week or so, we have come across yet more pollution incidents. These ranged from a toilet waste pipe on the Kilmarnock Water to Agricultural pollution on tributaries of the River Ayr. Below is an image of a toilet waste pipe coming...
Quiz Night – 11th March 2016
We held our annual quiz night at the Abbotsford Hotel in Ayr on Friday the 11th of March. This is always an enjoyable evening and as usual, our quiz master Wallace Milligan did not disappoint. The evening kicked off with the teams enjoying the usual banter with the...
Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee Hearing on Motion to Annul Legislation
Here's the link to the Rural Affairs Committee meeting that took place this morning after an motion to annul the proposed legislation on mandatory conservation measures for wild salmon. It explains the governments position and response to many areas of concern raised...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
