by Struan Candlish | Mar 6, 2018 | General
As everybody else has been posting about the impacts of the ‘Beast from the East’ I thought I would venture out last weekend and see what all the fuss was about. We’ve been blissfully unaffected at the office (Auchincruive, just outside Ayr) but I...
by Struan Candlish | Mar 5, 2018 | General
Over the last few weeks we’ve been busy delivering the ‘launch day’ for our Rivers and Lochs in the Classroom Project sponsored by Greggs. With Easter holidays looming we’ll be releasing the eggs in a couple of weeks time. The pupil’s...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 1, 2018 | General
*********THIS VAN HAS NOW BEEN SOLD, THANK YOU TO EVERY ONE WHO SHOWED INTEREST******* Unexpectedly the person that was going to take this van has had a change of circumstances and can’t get here to take it anytime soon so rather than hold onto it, he...
by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 24, 2018 | Conservation, General
The A76 Cluverts on the Glaisnock Water have been a barrier to fish migration since they were installed around 30 years ago. Several years ago, ART approached Scotland Transerve for improvements to be included within their scheduled maintenance of the structures and...
by Stuart Brabbs | Feb 24, 2018 | Conservation, General
Sevenacres Weir is an impassable obstacle on the Lugton Water and is in our sights for a fish pass installation this summer. We met with SEPA WEF team yesterday to discuss the final design and make sure we hadn’t overlooked any aspects.There were several points...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 23, 2018 | General
Some of our trout eggs (triploid) that we have in the office for the Rivers and Lochs in the Classroom have just begun to hatch. Not having access to alevins all that often this morning I took the opportunity to get a few snaps of some developed eggs and recently...