Thomas Hobson (University of Glasgow) is undertaking his first MRes project on CRIMP, supervised by the Clyde River Foundation. His project sets out to determine the accuracy of CRIMP data (by looking at the sources of error in the sampling more »
The Avon Angling Association CRIMP team has been joined by members of Stonehouse Girls’ Brigade to undertake riverfly monitoring. Club secretary David Paterson thought it would be an excellent idea to involve members of the Girls’ Brigade, who are working more »
Sam Gibson, one of our trained CRIMP volunteers in the Dalmuir Park area, is the Secretary of Clydebelt – a group dedicated to retaining and enhancing the heritage and green belt status of the Kilpatrick Hills and their surrounding environment in Clydebank, Dumbarton, Milngavie, Bearsden more »
Last month the guys from the Kelvin began their first monitoring day for CRIMP. It seems it was the last day of summer here in Glasgow but we took the opportunity to get out and about. Paul Reid (River Kelvin more »
The Upper Avon Angling Association got going with their riverfly monitoring on September 14th. We chose six sites on the Upper Avon – that’s one each for the CRIMP volunteers to monitor on a monthly basis. It was a really more »
Countryside Rangers from Dams to Darnley Country Park are taking part in the Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Parntership (CRIMP). They started sampling in July and have featured the project in their Autumn newsletter which is well worth a look! Again, thanks to everyone who’s been more »
We’re delighted to announce that a selection of art work created during the P7 phase of Trout at Transition is now on display in Biggar Library as part of Biggar Little Festival. The pupils worked with artist Holly Keasey to creatively more »
A riverfly monitoring group on the River Kennet (a chalk stream tributary of the River Thames) was first to detect the effects of a pesticide making its way into the river. Action for the River Kennet (ARK) volunteers noticed a more »
SEPA have provided the following update on the fish kill that occurred on the River Clyde in July: “SEPA received complaints of dead fish in the River Clyde upstream of the Tidal Weir around Glasgow Green on Sunday 28 more »
The CRIMP data is rolling in from those who have been out sampling their local burn. Well done and thank you to everyone who has been out kicking, counting and collating! We are really pleased with the feedback of data more »
We are currently hosting two interns – Harriet Alvis and Richard Newsome. Harriet, a recent graduate from Swansea University, has been working on a Clyde River Foundation placement looking at invertebrate samples from sites across the catchment and is about more »
We are awaiting further information on a fish kill that occurred in the River Clyde during the past week. Large numbers of dead salmon have been reported between Blantyre and the Tidal Weir near Glasgow Green. It is understood that more »
The River Clyde Fishery Management Plan (RCFMP) identified local management priorities for the Clyde catchment as part of a national programme supported by the Scottish Government and coordinated by the Rivers and Fisheries Trusts Scotland (RAFTS). As an update to this more »
Since the launch of the Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (CRIMP) in March, 67 volunteers from 15 groups across the Clyde catchment have attended our CRIMP training workshops. Follow-up days are ongoing and involve the selection of sampling sites and a more »
We’ve been uploading pictures from the CRIMP training days to the new ‘CRIMP Photos’ page. The albums are organised either by group or area – follow this link and see if you can spot yourself! Photos are still being added more »
CRIMP coordinator Lesley Gregg recently visited one of last month’s trainees, Mr. Ernie Atlee from Caurnie Angling Club. The club received their sampling kit to help them get started and they have chosen their first sampling site to monitored on more »
The good news is here! The amount of interest in joining the CRIMP project and the enthusiasm generated at the CRIMP launch last month has been very encouraging. We at the Clyde River Foundation thought it would be ideal to offer training at an earlier more »
The very first CRIMP workshop was held on Sunday 24th March at Strathclyde Country Park. All twelve workshop spaces were filled; three angling clubs were represented, with members of Lamington and District Angling Improvement Association (2 attendees), UCAPA Ltd (9 more »
The CRIMP launch day was a great success – 73 delegates representing 28 organisations attended the meeting, which was held at the University of Glasgow. We were delighted to see Professor James Curran, Chief Executive of SEPA and champion of more »
The Clyde River Foundation has obtained direct evidence that an otter has been killed in an illegal crayfish trap set recently in a tributary of the Clyde. The shocking images of a drowned otter were taken by an angler who more »
The Board and staff of the Clyde River Foundation are delighted to announce the appointment of Robert Kerr as Chairman. Robert worked in environmental regulation for over 38 years, latterly as a Divisional Manager for both the Clyde River Purification more »
A fish rescue undertaken by the Clyde River Foundation has saved 40 fish from a reservoir near Helensburgh and salvaged some valuable broodstock for Howietoun fish farm. The rescue was carried out as part of a major programme of works more »
Following the diagnosis of UDN on one salmon in the River Spey, this advice has been circulated by the Association of Salmon Fishery Boards: UDN has been diagnosed by Marine Scotland Science on one salmon in the River Spey. Further more »
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 more »
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 more »
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 more »
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 more »
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 more »