by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 14, 2012 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Given the ongoing development of the Burnawn fish pass at Cemetery Bridge, I thought it advisable to gather some data on the salmon population upstream of the bridge. No stocking has taken place on the Burnawn for a year or two so any salmon upstream of the fish pass...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 10, 2012 | Electrofishing, General
I’ve added 2 photos of trout that we caught today. The first was from the Barlewan Burn near to its confluence with the Abbeymill Burn. We surveyed this site as part of the Maybole Bypass monitoring. Apart from finding reasonably good numbers of salmon fry, this...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 6, 2012 | Electrofishing
Today we were out and about near Maybole surveying burns that we wouldn’t normally include in our routine electrofishing and I didn’t really expect too much from the sites we visited. One site was completely devoid of, and inaccessible to migratory...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 1, 2012 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
This has been another busy week at the Trust not least because Gillian is away to Egypt on holiday (she was needing some sun). As I haven’t managed any updates during the week, I’ve added this large post to cover the most interesting events off the week. I...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 26, 2012 | Electrofishing, General
We are struggling with electrofishing at the moment due to the weather but whenever we can, we are out somewhere in Ayrshire surveying the rivers and burns. Last week we managed to look at some of the Girvan tributaries. Results on the whole were very good (bear in...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 10, 2012 | Conservation, Electrofishing
We have two teams out electrofishing at the moment in an attempt to catch up following weeks of high water. Next week we will post an update for all the rivers that we have fished but this evening I thought it would be worth letting you know how we fared today on the...