by Struan Candlish | Oct 16, 2019 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
Last week we payed a second visit to some of the pupils at Doonfoot Primary School. With the River Doon raging an in river electrofishing demonstration unfortunately was not a possibility. Rather than let the pupils miss out on getting to see fish up close we managed...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 13, 2019 | General
We make this very sad announcement of the sudden death of Tony Donnelly, who had recently taken up the post of Board Director at the Cromarty Firth District Salmon Fishery Board. He died very suddenly after being taken ill at home. Tony was 35 years old. Tony had...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 11, 2019 | Conservation, General
Ayrshire Rivers Trust in conjunction with SRUC Advisory Service have produced a video to promote green engineering techniques through the Garnock Connections Project. ART has funding available for landowners in the Garnock Catchment who wish to stabilise eroding river...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 10, 2019 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Earlier today we completed our 30th site for the National Electrofishing Programme (NEPS), all that remains is for the site information to be uploaded to the database now. The final site was on the Glazert Burn, a feeder burn of the Annick Water. A single trout was...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 9, 2019 | Conservation, General
As part of our monitoring strategy for many projects we collect invertebrate samples. Different types of macro invertebrates are more tolerant to changes in water quality parameters than others. This allows us to determine changes in water quality. For instance if...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 6, 2019 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
With a break in the forecast today we managed to get our waders on and get out. We were monitoring the fish and invertebrate populations in the Haw and Pullower Burns in Killgallioch today. These two burns drain into the the River Duisk which feeds down into the River...