No more soggy logbooks
A new online ‘angling diary’ for Scottish anglers has just been launched by the Scottish Fisheries Coordination Centre. The website enables anglers to record information on their catches of freshwater game and coarse fish and share their angling experiences.
The Angling Diary has been on the wish-list of many anglers and fisheries managers throughout Scotland for years, and the new website has the potential to pull together angling records from across the country.
The task in hand…specialist surveyor below Bridgend Weir, Lochwinnoch
The Clyde River Foundation is participating in a national barrier assessment project being co-ordinated by Rivers and Fisheries Trusts Scotland (RAFTS) and financed by SEPA’s Water Restoration Fund.
The Foundation’s scientific information is being combined with a site visit by surveyors and engineers from Envirocentre to assess the current state of fish passage and the prospects for its improvement at each of four weirs in the first phase of the project. The weirs assessed in 2011 were on the Garrel Burn at Kilsyth, two on the River Gryffe downstream of Bridge of Weir, and at Bridgend on the River Calder, upstream of Lochwinnoch (pictured).
Clyde in the Classroom floats online (logo)
A new website dedicated to the Foundation’s Clyde in the Classroom primary school education project is now online at www.clydeintheclassroom.com
In the past 10 years, 12,450 children from 266 schools have taken part in the project which enables pupils to rear trout fry in a classroom hatchery before releasing them into their local river. Now the Foundation is keen to support the project with an online presence. The website contains resources for teachers including a downloadable project pack and project updates.
Jonathon Warren, Colin Bean, Nick Chisholm, Willie Yeomans, Matt Mitchell, Iain Miller gather at the completion of the crayfish barrier project
The first ever ‘crayfish barrier’ has been installed between the headwaters of the River Clyde and River Annan in a landmark attempt to control the spread of North American signal crayfish.
The barrier has been specially designed to stop the crayfish moving from one river catchment to another and represents a novel approach to the control of the species.
The signal crayfish is an invasive non-native species (INNS) that first arrived in Scotland in 1995 and has since spread to many river catchments around the country.
This website is still under development, but if you are reading this, you likely have some interest in news from your local catchment.
You can help by supplying useful catchment-focussed information to this website. If you…
- are running a river-related event
- have concerns about the river environment in your area
- or simply want to share a cracking photo, video or wee story
….then please get in touch.
This website will always be a work in progress and we welcome relevant contributions from any angle around the Clyde catchment and beyond.
Send us your news
