River Doon tributary monitoring
With Stuart giving a tour of various barriers and barrier easements across the Irvine catchment to a host of SEPA officials myself and Muir were in the Doon catchment completing electrofishing and invertebrate sampling on a number of tributaries. Whilst the...Stinchar Tributary Electrofishing Surveys
With one team electrofishing on the Girvan catchment the other team made an early start and headed down to the Stinchar valley to monitor a handful of tributary sites yesterday. Year to year populations fluctuate for a variety of reasons not least due to the...Green Bank Engineering – Solving Diffuse Pollution Problems
On the way back up the Girvan catchment yesterday, we stopped in the middle reaches to check progress of our green bank engineering that was installed in April 2016. This area of the Girvan contributed tonnes of silt and fine sediment to the river each year and had a...Translocating fry
Last year we translocated wild salmon fry on the Girvan from high density areas to tributary sites lacking salmon. There were no underlying problems to address other than a lack of salmon spawning in these burns. This could be as a result of declining numbers...The Clean Up Tarbolton Woods Campaign event.
We attended the Clean Up Tarbolton Woods Campaign event at Montgomerie Castle on the Fail this afternoon. I was pleased to see so many local families turn out and enjoy the activities that CUTWC had laid on. Burgers were available and enjoyed by all. The burn...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
