Farmed Salmon Escape

by | Jun 11, 2015 | Conservation, fishing, General

Last week, 16000 farmed salmon, each of around 10lbs in weight (4.5kg) escaped from a sea cage into the Kilbrannan Sound between Arran and the Mull of Kintyre. These fish may end up in Ayrshire’s rivers and the last thing we need is them breeding with our wild...

Giant hogweed control commences on the Ayr

by | May 8, 2015 | fishing, General

Following up on the previous years control of non native invasive species, ART managed to secure a limited amount of funding to allow us to control Giant hogweed in Ayrshire. With the plants not growing quickly, our contractors have started spraying this plant on the...

Reconnecting fish and habitat

by | Mar 27, 2015 | Conservation, fishing

I came across this video clip on YouTube and couldn’t help but see the similarities of this approach to what we do in Ayrshire and other Trusts across Scotland are also delivering. We may not have resources to work on this scale individually or to produce such...

Caaf Reservoir update

by | Mar 25, 2015 | Conservation, fishing

Finally water levels are approaching the required depth to allow us to effectively net the reservoir before it is full drained down. Levels are dropping by 700mm per day and our target level could be reached next week if there’s no more rainfall. While we are...

2014 catch data in perspective

by | Mar 19, 2015 | fishing

I’m just back from the ASFB/RAFTS conference (which was excellent) with a copy of the latest annual review. This publication gives the catch data from Board rivers (and the Irvine and Garnock) around Scotland and makes interesting reading. The Irvine and Garnock...