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 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 | Nov 5, 2018 | Conservation
We were at Skeldon Weir on the Doon today to advise the operators of the hydro scheme where timber baulks may provide the best opportunity to improve migration over this dam. While there’s no doubt the weir is passible, each and ever weir on rivers has an...
by Stuart Brabbs | Oct 18, 2018 | Conservation, General
Last night, BBC2’s Landward screened an episode examining the performance of salmon farms in Scotland. I watched the programme with interest along with thousands of anglers concerned about the impact these salmon farms are having on wild Atlantic Salmon stocks...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 8, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
On Thursday last week we surveyed the Crailoch Burn at two locations, one was our last site for the Government and the other was a monitoring site for the Stinchar DSFB. Our upper site yielded only trout and the lower site was dominated by salmon. The difference...