by Struan Candlish | Aug 8, 2018 | Conservation, General
I noticed one of our neighboring Trust’s post this link yesterday evening and I would urge our readers to respond to this consultation document. Developing an Environment Strategy for Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/06/4147/downloads This is an...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 13, 2018 | Conservation
The Water of Fail hasn’t featured much on our pages in the last few years and there’s a reason for that. Despite it being the second largest tributary of the Ayr up from the sea (after the Coyle) and 14 miles from the harbour, it suffers from bad water...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 8, 2018 | Conservation, General
2 years and one month on from when we first installed willow spiling at our green bank engineering sites on the Girvan, we have completed everything we planned to do and achieved almost all our intended results. The demonstration sites will continue to improve over...
by Stuart Brabbs | May 18, 2018 | Conservation, General
As regular readers will be aware, we’ve been monitoring smolt movements on the River Ayr through Catrine dam in a custom built fish pass and by-wash for several weeks now. Recently, the number of fish we’ve seen with fungal infection prompted us to call in...
by Stuart Brabbs | May 15, 2018 | Conservation
While we recognise the value of our local industrial heritage, we still see issues for fish migration and fish habitat that arises as a result of mining activity. Of course in recent years, there’s no hiding the many open cast mines that devastated the East...
by Stuart Brabbs | May 15, 2018 | Conservation, fishing, General
There were a few more smolts active at Catrine this morning. They were taking grannoms and midges from the surface or at least trying to. It is a hit or a miss to capture these images and you really need to have polaroids on to see the fish coming before they rise and...