News Archive
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Fish Farm escapes at Carradale, Firth of Clyde
Ayrshire Rivers Trust are working closely with Fishery Management Scotland, other neighbouring Trusts and DSFBs to respond to the fish farm escape of salmon into the Forth of Clyde at Carradale. MOWI have now managed to assess all cages and provided a count on the fish they have lost. Over 48,000 salmon around 4.3kg in
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Baffles receive their first real flow of water
in NewsThe newly installed Bogend Burn fish passes at Catrine had their first real flow of water down them this morning and ART staff attended to measure the rate of flow and compare that to the flows they recorded prior to installing the baffles. The water level was around 1/2″ up on any prior measured flow
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New baffles to improve fish passage
in ConservationMauchline and Ballochmyle Angling Club collaborated with Ayrshire Rivers Trust to improve fish migration into the Bogend Burn at Catrine where two culverts in the lower burn prevented most fish from migrating upstream. The Club secured funding from Cumnock and Doon Valley Minerals Trust to allow both culverts to be retro fitted with baffle systems
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Catrine Fish Pass modifications
in GeneralWork to remove the end wall at the fish ladder at Catrine Dam was underway in the last few days and while the timing was less than ideal, the work was considered to be the last remaining main issue that had to be resolved to improve fish migration through the dam. The only remaining action
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Fish pass maintenance
While the Board actively encourage landowners/operators to maintain their assets on the rivers within the catchment, it is not the DSFB’s responsibility to clear fish passes for them. Indeed the Board doesn’t empoly staff capable of doing so. The Board however, being a statutory body can pursue landowners that fail to manage and maintain fish
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Changes to the Board’s operation
in ManagementThe Ayr DSFB met yesterday for the first time since ‘lockdown’ commenced. The pandemic has made it impossible to hold a public board meeting or AGM for some time but there were urgent matters needing addressed and the Board met in open air yesterday to attend to these matters. Forbes Watson has been retained as
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Next DSFB meeting
in ManagementThe next River Ayr DSFB meeting will be held in Private following social distancing rules and as such the meeting won’t be open to the Public. While we understand this is unfortunate, it is also unavoidable under current Scottish Government Covid 19 guidance. The Board has several pressing issues to discuss and decided to meet
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Smolt run is underway and as usual, we need rain
As often happens, we come through winter when it rarely ceases to rain and as soon as our smolt run starts, the rain stops, the rivers drop and smolts become vulnerable and slow moving in ever shallowing pools. The first 3 months of 2020 were wet, incessantly wet with almost 500mm of rain falling in
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Bywash upgraded at Catrine
The long awaited upgrade to the bywash at Catrine Dam was completed a couple of weeks ago just in time for the anticipated smolt run. This new bywash will function along with the old one that didn’t appear to be particularly attractive to smolts migrating downstream in anything but low flows. Hopefully now there will be