Monthly Archives: August 2013
Last summer we surveyed the Dulnain in detail. The electrofishing sites in the Dulnain mainstem last year held good salmon fry densities but much lower parr densities. We promised then to revisit these sites a year on … Continue reading
On Friday we collected a standard three minute kick sample from the wide shallow riffle just upstream of Faindouran Bothy in the upper River Avon. This site was just below 600m (2000′) but the river was still over 30m wide… Continue reading
The last four mainstem timed sites on the Avon were completed today. The sites were all up near Faindouran Bothy with the upper site situated at over 600m (2000′) altitude. Salmon fry and parr numbers declined at each site… Continue reading
Many readers will be aware that in 2004 with great foresight the Spey Fishery Board initiated a genetic monitoring programme to try and establish the contribution of the Spey hatchery programme to the rod catch in… Continue reading
This year we are surveying the Avon (pronounced A’an) intensively as part of the three year catchment rota. The Avon mainstem is too large to survey properly by quantitative surveying so we used the same fry… Continue reading
I had a meeting yesterday but Steve, Michael (Hi Mum) and Polly continued the mainstem surveys in the Kinrara to Newtonmore area. Today we continued upstream with surveys from the Truim confluence to above Spey Dam.
Excluding the… Continue reading
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