Podcasting with the Farm Advisory Service.
A couple of weeks ago I had the please of speaking with Alex Pirie from the Farm Advisory Service for his podcast ‘Thrill of the Hill’ the title of our episode being ‘When the Rivers Run Free – Restoring our Waterways’. This is our third...Japanese knotweed control on the Stinchar.
We were on the River Stinchar yesterday undertaking a control programme for Japanese knotweed. Annually the Board collects a levy from anglers/angling clubs and syndicates which is then used to facilitate management, projects and monitoring across the catchment to the...Autumn surveys continue.
No longer can we call our field work ‘summer surveys’ as the beginning of September saw us officially enter into autumn – a slightly depressing though as only a minute ago it seemed like we were in spring with the rest of the year still ahead of us....Purclewan Burn Electrofishing
The week before last we were undertaking surveys to assess salmon production across some of the burns in the Doon catchment. One of these surveys was in the upper Purclewan Burn which drains Martnaham Loch and enters the River Doon just downstream of Dalrymple. The...Monitoring the Recovery of the Brockloch Burn.
Over the last few years we have been actively fencing and improving small burns that were in poor condition and supported fewer fish than they should have. Often after all other attempts to gain improvements through the regulator have failed, we have had to step in...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
