Projects

Atlantic Mariculture have developed a design for a 'kelp shelter' for sea trout, and intend to trial five of these structures at key points on known migratory routes within the Shiel and Moidart sea trout catchment area in Lochaber.

Loch Lomond Fishery Trust were given a grant to set up a community outreach programme involving education in fisheries conservation, angling and fish farming.

A habitat restoration project in a degraded but important Ayrshire spawning burn.

Freshwater habitat improvements and fish counting.

Green engineering to protect large bank of erosion on the River Eachaig.

Freshwater habitat and riparian zone improvements on the River Ruel.

Argyll Fisheries Trust were given funds to improve works on the River Ruel and River Eachaig on the Cowal Peninsular in South Argyll.

Funding was given to Ayrshire Rivers Trust to improve the bankside and the instream habitat on the Brochloch Burn.

Loch Lomand Fishery Trust were given funds to undertake habitat enhancement work in 15 sites over 5 burns across the Lomond catchment.

Skye Fishery Trust were funded to purchase practical and technological equipment and contribute to staff time that enabled them to undertake an acoustic telemetry tracking study of adult sea trout.

West Harris Trust received funding to restore and strengthen the historic Fincastle Dam on the Island of Harris.

Argyll Fisheries Trust were given funding to assist with habitat restoration activities on the Dalvuie Burn in Argyll.

Carloway River Project were given a grant to distribute gravel on a number of waterways as a means of improving the salmon spawning redds.

Flow Countries River Trust were given funding to undertake and extend baseline survey work on macroinvertebrates in 10 disparate rivers.

Lochaber Fisheries Trust were given funds to implement juvenile surveys which assessed young salmon densities and genetic diversity in 8 local rivers.

Wester Ross Fisheries Trust were given funding to deliver a comprehensive plan of actions at specific locations on the Upper Rhiddorch River by mapping erosion and deposition locations and stabilising the stream through the creation of woodland enclosures.