by Struan Candlish | Oct 14, 2025 | Conservation, General
A couple of weeks ago I had the please of speaking with Alex Pirie from the Farm Advisory Service for his podcast ‘Thrill of the Hill’ the title of our episode being ‘When the Rivers Run Free – Restoring our Waterways’. This is our third...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 8, 2025 | Electrofishing, fishing, General
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...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 8, 2025 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
The week before last we were undertaking surveys to assess salmon production across some of the burns in the Doon catchment. One of these surveys was in the upper Purclewan Burn which drains Martnaham Loch and enters the River Doon just downstream of Dalrymple. The...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 29, 2025 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Over the last few years we have been actively fencing and improving small burns that were in poor condition and supported fewer fish than they should have. Often after all other attempts to gain improvements through the regulator have failed, we have had to step in...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 29, 2025 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
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...
by Struan Candlish | Jun 30, 2025 | Conservation, General
At the start of June we ventured out of Ayrshire to work with Lomond Fisheries Trust to install baffles in two culverts on the Fruin system that were preventing migratory fish access to the upper habitats. This is work that is being supported by the Wild Fisheries...