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Fry Planting This year’s fry planting on the Conon is well underway.  Large areas of the Conon catchment are dependent on a mitigation stocking programme which has been running for more than 50 years.   This programme has proved successful … Continue reading →

Meig Smolt Trapping This year in addition to our long term smolt tagging project on the River Bran, we are running a smolt tagging project on the River Meig.  To do this a Rotary Screw Trap has been installed upstream … Continue reading →

                        River Bran Smolt Trapping started The Smolt trap on the River Bran at Achanalt was opened on the 31st of march.  This trap is used to catch the … Continue reading →

Alness Rhododendron Clearance Bailiffs have started work to clear the banks of the Alness system of Rhododendron. Beginning withe the clearance of a heavily infested a spawning tributary at Ardross castle.   Before Forestry Commission funding will cover 10 days … Continue reading →

This week brought one of the most violent storms for many years to the North of Scotland.  The broodstock collection at Loch na Croic is very dependent on weather and water flows.  A rise in water is needed to draw … Continue reading →

The Partnership Against Wildlife Crime (PAWS) has produced a mobile phone app which can be used to record and report wildlife crime to the police.  As well as reporting other forms of wildlife crime this provides a new way of … Continue reading →

  Follow the link below for details of the first sea trout recorded spawning in the River Peffery upstream of the Strathpeffer weir since a fish pass was installed this summer. http://www.morayfirthtrout.org/news.asp

The native trees that were planted along the banks of the Orrin this spring are growing very well.  The Rhododendron which previously covered the entire river has now been felled and any regrowth sprayed each year.  The Woodland Trust supplied native … Continue reading →

During the 1970’s UDN (Ulcerative Dermal Necrosis) killed tens of thousands of salmon returning to Scottish Rivers.   Although much research took place at the time no causal agent was ever identified.  Over the last few years there have been reports … Continue reading →

Trout fishing the hill lochs around the Cromarty Firth provides some excellent sport and great exercise.  There is very little information available on this very under used resource and we would like to collect more information about the trout stocks … Continue reading →