by Stuart Brabbs | Dec 18, 2020 | General
by Struan Candlish | Dec 16, 2020 | Conservation, fishing, General
A short film about salmon spawning on the Girvan and Stinchar, south-west Scotland, Ayrshire. With water levels and temperatures both falling, the salmon wasted no time in getting on with the job of spawning. Enjoy!...
by Struan Candlish | Dec 8, 2020 | Conservation, Events, General
On Sunday evening BBC’s Countryfile aired a report on the challenges facing the Scottish salmon industry. In the last completed production cycle there was a 26% mortality rate of farmed salmon and in August alone 48,834 farmed fish escaped into the natural...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 29, 2020 | General
It’s been a hectic few weeks for the staff at ART as we’ve been heavily involved in scale sampling, electrofishing, crayfish monitoring and worst of all, moving office at a really inconvenient time of the year. This was forced on us by new owners at...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 31, 2020 | Conservation, General
Here’s a link to the latest guidance produced by collaboration with stakeholders such as ART, Fisheries Trusts and District Salmon Fishery Boards, FHI and MSS and published by Fishery management Scotland....
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 28, 2020 | Conservation, General
A year or two ago, a simple electric scare fence was erected on the Glenstang Burn near Stair. This prevented cattle accessing the water margin in the bottom half of a field but open grazing remained on the upper section where erosion continued to occurred around...