by Stuart Brabbs | Oct 11, 2018 | Electrofishing, General
Today was a long one, but interesting too. Struan and I set off early for the top of the Stinchar to follow up on earlier work and with a few questions we wanted to answer. The weather was closing in as we headed down the road and the sky became darker and darker. We...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 8, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
On Thursday last week we surveyed the Crailoch Burn at two locations, one was our last site for the Government and the other was a monitoring site for the Stinchar DSFB. Our upper site yielded only trout and the lower site was dominated by salmon. The difference...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 11, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Yesterday we were on the Duisk (Stinchar catchment) continuing with the Government surveys. Despite the rain we got another couple completed with reasonable numbers of juvenile salmonids recorded at both sites. The heavy afternoon and overnight rain has swept away...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 28, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
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...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 22, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, fishing, General
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...
by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 1, 2017 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
We annually visit Glenmuir Water (aka the Shaw Burn) to download temperature data from our logger high on the Lugar side of the Ayr catchment. It is a long trek out there even in a 4×4 but it is a lovely but barren place to visit. Salmon numbers have crashed on...