Stinchar pollution and problems

by | Aug 28, 2015 | Conservation, fishing, General

It’s a bad sign when the River Stinchar is suffering from pollution incidents on a regular basis and very worrying when we see fish numbers falling in some areas, possibly as a result. It’s not just pollution that causes concern and we do see other...

Catrine update.

by | Aug 25, 2015 | Conservation, fishing, General

The new deflector appears to have helped slightly but more needs done in my opinion. I filmed the top baffle in the fish pass for an hour and a quarter this afternoon in a falling water when salmon would normally be expected to be running and indeed were, with a...

Farmed Salmon Escape

by | Jun 11, 2015 | Conservation, fishing, General

Last week, 16000 farmed salmon, each of around 10lbs in weight (4.5kg) escaped from a sea cage into the Kilbrannan Sound between Arran and the Mull of Kintyre. These fish may end up in Ayrshire’s rivers and the last thing we need is them breeding with our wild...

Giant hogweed control commences on the Ayr

by | May 8, 2015 | fishing, General

Following up on the previous years control of non native invasive species, ART managed to secure a limited amount of funding to allow us to control Giant hogweed in Ayrshire. With the plants not growing quickly, our contractors have started spraying this plant on the...

Reconnecting fish and habitat

by | Mar 27, 2015 | Conservation, fishing

I came across this video clip on YouTube and couldn’t help but see the similarities of this approach to what we do in Ayrshire and other Trusts across Scotland are also delivering. We may not have resources to work on this scale individually or to produce such...