Girvan Tributary Surveys

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been carrying out surveys across the Girvan catchment – specifically in the tributaries to understand of how well used the burns were by salmon over the winter last year. We have several reference sites that we try to...

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....

Summer Surveys

This week we’ve been in the very upper reaches of tributaries that feed the upper Duisk in the Stinchar catchment. We always look forward to a trip down into the Stinchar Valley as it’s incredibly picturesque however this week we’ve been dodging incredibly...

2025 Timed Electrofishing Results

We have had a bit of time to look at the 2025 timed electrofishing results in more detail and on the whole, spawning and survival from winter to July has been encouraging. Timed electrofishing is a rapid assessment of salmon fry survival between the spawning period...