by Struan Candlish | Feb 13, 2019 | Conservation, General
In December last year, Marine Scotland stated that they will be asking fisheries to start recording fishing effort as rod days for salmon fisheries in the 2019 season. Since then a number of questions have arisen. The following document should help answer the various...
by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 7, 2019 | Conservation, General
The staff all attended the 21st SFCC AGM and Biologists conference at the start of the week and what a good couple of days they were. SFCC goes from strength to strength under the careful management of Sean Dugand. It’s hard to believe Sean has been in post for...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 18, 2019 | Conservation, General
Contractors were finishing off their work at Sevenacres on the Lugton Water today. Despite difficult weather conditions and other problems encountered, they have completed their task and provided improved fish passage for the first time in several decades (since the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 1, 2019 | Conservation, General
The rainfall total in Mauchline for 2018 is now complete and reveals just how dry 2018 was compared to 2017. As I’ve only been collecting rainfall for a couple of years, it is hard to state what’s average rainfall is for this area however, other local...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 1, 2019 | General
A Happy New Year to all our readers. May 2019 be a better one for the fish. I received an interesting call yesterday (Hogmanay) informing me that 5 salmon had been seen running through the Alloway Mill beat on the Doon yesterday and they were bars of silver. The...
by Struan Candlish | Dec 6, 2018 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
Interesting to see that Marine Harvest is having a rebrand, changing their name to Mowi next year. Harking back to their roots, Marine Harvest were originally named Mowi when the company began fish farming in 1964. Since then it became Hydro Seafood under the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Dec 5, 2018 | fishing, General
Last week, Marine Scotland announced their intention to collect rod effort data from fisheries in 2019 (for salmon only). While we agree the catch per unit effort would be extremely beneficial to understanding salmon runs, collecting the necessary data is likely to...
by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 29, 2018 | General
Having now had some time to digest the contents of the Rural Economic Committee Report on Salmon Farming in Scotland, we can now make our own brief assessment based on the contents of the report. Instantly, we heard claims of a whitewash or that this report had let...