News
Kilmarnock Water
Last Thursday was another miserable day and I was on the Kilmarnock Water tin the morning. The river had dropped back but was still high. Black Rocks Waterfall was my first stop where I saw both salmon and sea trout making half hearted attempts to get over the falls....
Ayr DSFB Meeting
The next River Ayr DSFB meeting will be held on the 1st December at 7.00pm in Ayrshire Rivers Trust offices, 1 Gibbs Yard, Auchincruive, Ayr KA6 5HW. This meeting is open to the Public.
Girvan DSFB AGM
The River Girvan DSFB meeting and AGM will be held in the Carrick Centre, Maybole on the 25th Nov. The Board meeting will be at 6.30pm followed by the AGM at 7.45pm. This meeting is open to the Public.
Culroy Burn improvements
Following our green engineering work and fencing on the Culroy Burn earlier this summer, we had to wait some time for rain to swell the burn and test our efforts. This morning I returned to the burn to see how our green bank works performed at the start of September...
Crayfish Control…and hands on experience
ART have experience of controlling American Signal Crayfish gained during the eradication attempt at Ballachulish Quarry in 2012 when ART provided 3 staff to assist. This was a large but isolated quarry pond that had been infested by an original release of...
Update on the Crayfish situation
Following our confirmation that American Signal Crayfish have been found in the Ayr catchment earlier this week, we have been continuing to trap in an effort to establish the extent of the problem. We aren't attempting to control these creatures but rather establish...
American Signal Crayfish turn up in an Ayrshire River
Following up on a report by a local angling club, that an American Signal Crayfish (ASC) had been seen in a local river, we obtained the necessary licences to commence trapping in an attempt to confirm the sighting. At the moment, we won't confirm the river or the...
School pupils enjoy a day out.
When schools ask for our assistance, very rarely do we ever refuse as education is central to the ethos of the Trust. Today we were joined by a group of advanced higher biology pupils from Wellington School in Ayr who wanted to look at different aquatic invertebrates...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
