by Struan Candlish | Sep 11, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Yesterday we were on the Duisk (Stinchar catchment) continuing with the Government surveys. Despite the rain we got another couple completed with reasonable numbers of juvenile salmonids recorded at both sites. The heavy afternoon and overnight rain has swept away...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 28, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
With Stuart giving a tour of various barriers and barrier easements across the Irvine catchment to a host of SEPA officials myself and Muir were in the Doon catchment completing electrofishing and invertebrate sampling on a number of tributaries. Whilst the...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 22, 2018 | Conservation, Electrofishing, fishing, General
With one team electrofishing on the Girvan catchment the other team made an early start and headed down to the Stinchar valley to monitor a handful of tributary sites yesterday. Year to year populations fluctuate for a variety of reasons not least due to the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 1, 2017 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
We annually visit Glenmuir Water (aka the Shaw Burn) to download temperature data from our logger high on the Lugar side of the Ayr catchment. It is a long trek out there even in a 4×4 but it is a lovely but barren place to visit. Salmon numbers have crashed on...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 23, 2017 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
On Thursday of last week myself and Muir were on the Ayr catchment carrying out electrofishing surveys on three tributaries of the upper Ayr. Our first port of call was the Ponesk, we began above the modified section to assess if salmon had made it this far up the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 23, 2017 | Electrofishing
We surveyed just one burn today and gave two volunteers an insight into semi quantitative electrofishing survey techniques and purposes. Both Jim and Heather have given the Trust their commitment to regularly turn out and help us and we in turn are assisting them to...