by Struan Candlish | Feb 27, 2019 | Conservation, fishing, General
We stopped in at Sevenacres Weir this afternoon to install coir matting to protect the toe of a soil slope. With good light and low water levels we were able to take some photos that illustrate just how the brash bundles we installed on the left bank are working. This...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 27, 2019 | Conservation, fishing, General
Often salmon and trout are given greater amounts of attention than our other native fish species, in part due to their popularity amongst anglers and because they are under increasing pressures from a variety of sources. However today we finished the installation of a...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 21, 2019 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
The Government has released the river categorisations having now been passed in Parliament. These gradings will be effectual from April 1st 2019. River Categories are as follows. Irvine -3 Garnock – 2 Ayr – 2 Doon – 2 Girvan – 2 Stinchar...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 18, 2019 | Conservation, General
On Friday of last week Muir and Struan downloaded our remaining temperature data loggers that were placed in the River Ayr catchment as part of Faye Jackson’s PhD to assess changes and trends in water temperature in relation to climate change. These data loggers...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 13, 2019 | Conservation, General
In December last year, Marine Scotland stated that they will be asking fisheries to start recording fishing effort as rod days for salmon fisheries in the 2019 season. Since then a number of questions have arisen. The following document should help answer the various...
by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 7, 2019 | Conservation, General
The staff all attended the 21st SFCC AGM and Biologists conference at the start of the week and what a good couple of days they were. SFCC goes from strength to strength under the careful management of Sean Dugand. It’s hard to believe Sean has been in post for...