by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 23, 2017 | Conservation, General
19mm of rain fell in Mauchline last night and 18mm at Gadgirth. This seemed to be consistent across much of Ayrshire last night as torrential rain and thunder storms passed over during the wee hours. Consequently, this morning every river and most burns were...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 22, 2017 | Conservation, General
We were on the Girvan translocating fry from a high density main stem area to a nearby low density tributary. This is a far less damaging way of increasing the habitat utilised by salmon than the rather less controllable stocking with hatchery reared fry. The adult...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 14, 2017 | Conservation, General
We were involved in a fish rescue last week ahead of the Scottish Water pipeline crossing the Craufurdland Water near Kilmarnock. We were there on Monday before water levels stopped work, followed by a return on Tuesday to perform the fist passes over with...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 28, 2017 | Conservation, General
With water levels still slightly too high this morning for electrofishing surveys, we decided to take Jim and Niall, our two volunteers for the day, out tree planting. We are grateful for their generous support. It’s great to have their assistance and they seem...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 20, 2017 | Conservation, General
With our salmon tracking site approved by MSS, we decided to place the mooring and receiver in Ayr harbour today. Not in the useable harbour but upstream of any boat traffic beside the old railway bridge pillars. Plan A was a good one (so we thought). Float the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 14, 2017 | Conservation
Our fencer, Jim Thompson has now completed two contracts for us and the Doon Board this year. The Macmanniston stretch on the main river has been completed and we will agree a final measure on this next week and post some photos here. The second stretch was on the...