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River diversion on the Nith
August 15, 2013The course of the River Nith was altered at Kier’s Greenburn Surface Coal Mine near New Cumnock, during the second week of August 2012. This was the first of two planned diversions of the river to facilitate the extraction of coal beneath (Read More…)
Robin Rigg report by Marine Scotland
August 13, 2013Marine Scotland recently published a report on the potential influence of Robin Rigg Wind Farm on Atlantic salmon abundance in the rivers to the east of the farm. Using rod catch data and juvenile salmonid data they found that there were no (Read More…)
Fishing days at Drum Loch
August 7, 2013participate in a day’s angling tuition on a local trout fishery. This year, Dumfries High School and Wallace Hall Academy took up the offer and enjoyed a day’s fishing on Drum Loch. The weather was kind to them and a few fish (Read More…)
Helping Hand
August 5, 2013The Trust and Board’s staff has been planting out hatchery reared stock recently into areas of the catchment that have been assessed previously and require this management intervention. The stocking of fry is one of those tasks in the year which lends (Read More…)
Fish death investigated
July 6, 2013A concerned local angler reported a couple of dead fish upstream from Auldgirth Bridge earlier today and we went out with the angler to investigate. On retrieving and examining the two sea trout, it is thought that they have both died of (Read More…)
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…)
