Ayrshire Rivers Trust staff have been monitoring smolt emigration from the Cummock Burn at Dalmellington in the last week or two for the DSFB. This is a considerable undertaking as we are required to check the trap daily but of course we don’t mind. The Cummock was stocked in 2018 and 2019 with alevins from […]
NOTICE OF MEETING RIVER DOON DISTRICT SALMON FISHERY BOARD DATE OF MEETING: WEDNESDAY 24TH MARCH 2021 VENUE: ZOOM MEETING. JOINING DETAILS TO FOLLOW TIME: […]
Ayrshire Rivers Trust has produced a video guide detailing the key indicators that can be used to distinguish farmed from wild salmon. The latest escape of salmon from the Carradle fish farm are beginning to turn up in our rivers so keep an eye out for them. Under the Conservation Regulations introduced in 2016 by […]
Ayrshire Rivers Trust received a video call today from an angler who had just caught a salmon on the Irvine that he thought may be a farmed fish escaped from Carradale 3 weeks ago. Impressed by his ingenuity we quickly were able to confirm that indeed this was an escaped farmed salmon and it […]
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. FMS Advice http://fms.scot/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200825-Aqua-Guidance-on-escapees.pdf
Fisherman’s Map of the River Doon
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