by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 15, 2014 | General
As I said in a previous post we were back for one last visit at the Garnock to survey the habitat where the pipeline crosses. This wasn’t a water course survey but rather a look at the habitat and plants to allow assessment of the impact of a pipeline. It meant...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 14, 2014 | Conservation, Events, General
The title of this post poses a question that stemmed from an observation that ART made when electrofishing a site on the upper Ayr in 2011. On Friday we returned to the same site, keen to see how things may have changed. Until this season when electrofishing, we have...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 13, 2014 | General
We were saddened to hear of the death of Douglas Stewart last Tuesday. Douglas was a keen River Doon angler and supporter of the Trust and will be sadly missed. Our condolences go to all his family.
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 12, 2014 | General
First to avoid confusion, there are two separate jobs underway at Catrine, the large weir contract that has progressed throughout the summer. Second contract is the Daldorch wall underpinning. The contractors are different as are the organisations responsible for the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 10, 2014 | Electrofishing, General
We have just about completed our Board commitments on the Ayr for 2014 electrofishing season but following last night’s Board meeting, I headed back to the upper catchment to look at a couple of sites where we will be gravel cleaning later this year in an effort...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 8, 2014 | fishing, General
Finally after what has been a hard few days, we reached the end of the fish and fish habitat surveys required on the upper Garnock catchment today. We have one more survey of the pipe track to undertake later in the week but this has nothing to do with rivers or fish....