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Continued Professional Development
July 5, 2013The Board and Trust take their responsibilities to their employees with regard to training very seriously and as such continue to train members of staff to enable them to do the tasks required of them. Trained staff are more confident and comfortable (Read More…)
Celtic Sea Trout Project Meets in Dumfries
June 24, 2013On Tuesday 11th June the management group of the Celtic Sea Trout Project met in Dumfries and gave a series of talks to invited representatives of the rivers around the Solway Firth. Anglers, owners and fishery managers were given presentations on the (Read More…)
Trust AGM on 11th March
June 3, 2013Notice of Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of Nith Catchment Fishery Trust will be held at Friars Carse Hotel, Auldgirth, DG3 5LU on 11 March 2013 at 19.30hrs. Business will include an update of the Trust’s work, presentation of the (Read More…)
Check Clean Dry signage
May 20, 2013As part of the Nith Catchment Biosecurity Plan to try to prevent aquatic invasive species being spread within our waterways, the Trust has been putting up Check Clean Dry signs around the catchment. The signs were kindly provided by the Scottish Government (Read More…)
Sanquhar Primary explore the Crawick water
May 15, 2013Pupils from Sanquhar Primary School braved the unseasonably cold weather to explore the Crawick Water today. We started off by electrofishing a section of the river and caught four lovey salmon parr, a trout parr and one small trout fry. After (Read More…)
Fintastic Tales – the story of the Atlantic salmon
May 4, 2013The Board and Trust hosted an open day for visitors on Wednesday the 3rd of April. The Fintastic Tales event, which was part of the D&G Wild Spring Festival, consisted of a visit to the hatchery to learn about the amazing lifecycle (Read More…)
Fintastic Tales Day 2
April 4, 2013Recently the Board and Trust hosted the second of two open days to enable members of the public to get an insight into fisheries management within the River Nith system. The many facets of work conducted by the Board and Trust (Read More…)
Bogrie Hydro Scheme
April 3, 2013Recently we attended on site at the installation of the Bogrie Micro Hydro scheme. We are working with the installers to ensure that the outflow for the scheme is fish friendly. Having previously surveyed the watercourse, fish are present and both the (Read More…)
D&G Environment Fair
We had an enjoyable day on Saturday at the Dumfries and Galloway Environment Fair where we had a stall demonstrating all of the work that we carry out. The main attraction on our table was a tank full of sea trout fry. (Read More…)
Discolouration of River Nith Investigated
March 18, 2013There was a recent incident on the River Nith where discoloured water entered the river at Kirkconnel. The incident was reported to the Board by Danny Marshall from Upper Nithsdale Angling Association and the Board’s staff attended on site to investigate. Essential (Read More…)
