Silt and other issues affecting productivity
Our electrofishing season is all but over thankfully, as the injuries are stacking up and some older members of the team are feeling a bit tired. Age is a terrible affliction but with it comes experience so I do feel it has advantages (which I keep reminding my more...Landward covers Salmon Farming
Last night, BBC2’s Landward screened an episode examining the performance of salmon farms in Scotland. I watched the programme with interest along with thousands of anglers concerned about the impact these salmon farms are having on wild Atlantic Salmon stocks...Dyrock problems on the Girvan catchment
On the Dyrock Burn in the Girvan catchment we find salmon in low densities most years but we’ve never really found as many as we feel should be produced from this watercourse and its tributaries. This year is no different and we were hard pressed to find any...Assessing problems in the Stinchar Valley
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...Stinchar tributary monitoring
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...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
