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Family Fishing Day at Dock Park
November 4, 2014The Nith Catchment Fishery Trust hosted the third Family Fishing Day this year on the 23rd of October at the newly renovated Dock Park in Dumfries town centre. We were extremely lucky with the weather and even got some sunshine in the (Read More…)
Chinese Mitten Crabs found in Scotland for the first time
September 29, 2014The remains of a Chinese mitten crab has been discovered in the River Clyde causing concern amongst Scottish salmon rivers. These invasive non-native species where first found in the River Thames in 1935 and since then they have become established in a (Read More…)
Galloway Country Fair 2014
August 25, 2014River Nith Team at the Galloway Country Fair 2014 For the fourth year running the Nith District Salmon Fishery Board and Nith Catchment Fishery Trust attended Galloway Country Fair and whilst it wasn’t as wet as it has been in previous years (Read More…)
Civic Pride on the River Nith
August 4, 2014Team Effort: Staff from the Nith District Salmon Fishery Board and Nith Catchment Fishery Trust spent a day with Morris and John from Dumfries Civic Pride removing the Himalayan Balsam from the islands on the Whitesands in Dumfries. This will be a (Read More…)
Fishing For The Future Project
July 28, 2014Following on from our last update on the Fishing For The Future Project from 17th June 2014: The last session of the Fishing for the Future project aired on ITV news. The project has been a great success this year with over (Read More…)
Final Fishing for the Future project field trip
June 17, 2014The final Session of the Fishing for the Future Project has now been completed and what a great few days we had! We took participants from Primary Schools down the beach to have a tour of the Douglashall stake net fishery. During (Read More…)
River Nith Diversion
June 16, 2014River Nith Diversion – rescuing fish out of the river Nith in preparation for a 600m stretch of the Nith being diverted on Monday 16th June 2014. Fishery protection measures are incorporated into the project to avoid any potential adverse impacts which (Read More…)
Holywood Trust support the Fishing for the Future project
May 7, 2014The Holywood Trust joined us on the Marr Burn to find out more about the Fishing for the Future project that they are supporting. Pupils from Wallace Hall Academy were carrying out a survey of the Marr Burn to determine its productivity. (Read More…)
Wild Fisheries Review
February 28, 2014Following the anouncement by the First Minister on the 15th January 2014 that a Wild Fisheries Review would be undertaken, Paul Wheelhouse has recently anounced the remit, scope and structure of the review. For information about the review and its remit, please (Read More…)
Tight Lines For 2014
February 27, 2014The 2014 fishing season got off to a start on the 25th of February, on one of the rare days when the sun shone. River conditions were not conducive to productive fishing but a few enthusiasts “wet a line” to christen the (Read More…)
