Angler and freshwater biologist-come-photographer, Josh Maitland has been braving the cold on the Rotten Calder once again this month. Keen CRIMPer, Josh, who trained in riverfly monitoring in August has been out sampling every month and this time uncovered caseless more »
Last week we went along to the CIRB End of Project Conference in Stranraer. The CIRB project (Controlling Priority Invasive Non-native Riparian Plants and Restoring Native Biodiversity) was a 4-year project aimed at controlling four invasive riparian plant species in more »
On Wednesday 19th the Riverfly Partnership (RP) held a conference in the Natural History Museum, London, for the Angler’s Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) coordinators and tutors. A series of talks were given from Steve Brooks (RP Chairman), Ben Fitch (ARMI more »
Pupils from Duncanrig Secondary School in East Kilbride are working with teachers to help monitor the health of their local burn, a tributary of the Kittoch Water. The school is one of four secondary schools to get involved in the Clyde more »
Would your class like to take part in Clyde in the Classroom 2015? We have just 12 spaces left so please contact our Education Outreach Officer Caroline McGillivray on caroline.mcgillivray@glasgow.ac.uk if you’re interested! Find out more about Clyde in the Classroom more »
Project Coordinator Lesley Deans attended the British Ecological Society Citizen Science conference titled ‘Citizen Science – Fit for the Future?’, at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford. The idea was to share and reflect on the experiences, challenges and more »
How clean is the Rotten Calder? Josh Maitland, Junior Secretary and member of the local angling club in East Kilbride has signed up to CRIMP to answer that very question. After attending the final CRIMP workshop in August, he visited the more »
Last week we were joined in the field by a Russian TV crew (London-based) who were visiting Scotland to cover two stories; the bicentenary of the birth of the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov and the discovery of a Chinese mitten more »
The final CRIMP workshop held at the end of August took the number of CRIMPers trained on the Clyde catchment into triple figures. Exactly 108 volunteers have registered with CRIMP since the project launched in March 2013. Attendees at the more »
We’ve had quite a lot of interest in the mitten crab story today. As we all know, the tabloids love a good scare story so I’d just like to point out a few facts about the discovery, or the so-called “Chinese more »
The Upper Avon Angling Club have been out sampling recently on four of their CRIMP sample sites. All but one of the sites have seen an improvement in the number and variety of fly-life since last year’s samples. It’s really more »
A Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis has been found in the River Clyde and this is the very first record of this alien species in the wild in Scotland. The specimen (the remains of a female) was discovered near Dalmarnock by more »
CRIMPers from the Lamington and District Angling Improvement Association got kicking with their first sampling sessions on the Lamington Burn and Culter Water. Riverfly enthusiast Jim Lees, who writes his own fly fishing blog http://www.palewatery.com/blog/, and Marc Light, a keen more »
Marine and Freshwater Biology student, Stef Scott, is about to embark on her third year of study and is also volunteering her spare time to look after her local river, the Allander water. Steph hopes to go into environmental consultancy more »
A freshly dead salmon was brought to our lab by a bailiff from the River Kelvin Angling Association yesterday. The fish had extensive lesions around the head and fin damage as shown in the pictures below. We have informed the Fish more »
New ‘CRIMPers’ from the Busby Angling Association have stepped up to keep watch over their local river the White Cart Water. Scott Ferguson and Ken Gillies, who trained up back in May, have strategically selected sites on the river to best more »
Teams of volunteers have been hard at work during July to pull and help stop the spread of Himalayan balsam from the banks of the River Clyde. Events were organised by the Central Scotland Green Network Trust (CSGNT) in association more »
University of Glasgow student Claire Jones joined us last month after being awarded a Vacation Scholarship by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. After coming to the end of the third year of a degree in Marine and Freshwater more »
Following the news of the fish kill that occurred over the weekend of July 19th/20th (https://www.clyderiverfoundation.org/river-clyde-fish-kill-near-glasgow-green/) we have received further reports of dead fish being spotted in the River Clyde by members of the public watching the Commonwealth Games flotilla on more »
As we continue to track the spread of invasive non-native species (INNS) throughout the Clyde catchment we’d like to remind all river users of how you can help halt the spread of these harmful organisms. Remember these 3 simple steps: Check, Clean, more »
Yesterday we learned of yet another fish kill on the main stem of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The fish kill occurred upstream of the Tidal Weir at Glasgow Green – the same location as last July’s large fish kill. In more »
Duncanrig Secondary School, East Kilbride, recently started using CRIMP to cover aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence such as indicator species and pollution. Biology teachers Mrs Matthews and Mrs Meldrum attended training sessions earlier in the year to learn the more »
The River Gryfe catchment is now well covered by three dedicated teams of riverfly monitors. All three angling clubs (Paisley Abercorn Angling Club, Bridge of Weir (River) Angling Club and Strathgryfe Angling Association) have trained nineteen riverfly monitors in total more »
The River Kelvin Angling Association to date has eleven trained and active monitors covering the catchment and its tributaries. This week we met with recently trained volunteers from the River Kelvin Angling Association to assist with choosing sampling sites. We more »
Interested in spending some time along the River Clyde to help tackle aliens? Then join in and help to pull Himalayan balsam along the River Clyde walkway to stop the spread of this invasive plant. The Central Scotland Green Network Trust (CSGNT), more »
The Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (CRIMP) has been used as an example in a new best practice guide produced by SEPA and the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) titled ‘Choosing and Using Citizen Science: a guide to when and how to more »
We are in the process of updating the Clyde River Foundation website this week, so please bear with us while we make some much-needed changes! For anyone uploading CRIMP data, the CRIMP pages should remain the same.
Click to here to read the first ‘CRIMP Update’ about the Darngaber which is under observation by anglers on the Avon Water. This is a just a taster of the quarterly electronic newsletters that are planned to come. The next full issue more »
The final Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (CRIMP) training course will take place on Saturday 30th August. If you are interested in joining CRIMP and would like to learn the riverfly monitoring technique to carry out regular water quality checks on your local river, more »
We were delighted to receive a copy of the ‘outdoor special’ edition of Teach Primary Magazine in the office this week. The magazine highlights a range of outdoor education initiatives and includes a great article on Clyde in the Classroom. Thanks to Miss Weir (Millersneuk more »
Children’s author Mike Nicholson is working with us to deliver his ‘Write a story in 60 minutes’ sessions to three primary schools – Saracen (Glasgow), Braidwood (South Lanarkshire) and All Saints (Inverclyde). The project is supported by the Scottish Book more »
The inaugural World Fish Migration Day took place on Saturday 24th May. We were delighted to participate in this global initiative, the theme of which was ‘connecting rivers, fish and people’. We held ‘Salmon Homecoming’ at the David Livingstone Centre on more »
Pupils from Hollybrook Academy took to CRIMPing last week for an afternoon of outdoor learning. Teachers Graham Munro and John Sharkey brought their class of 16 to the Castlemilk Burn (a tributary of the Cityford Burn) to try out some more »
Saturday 24th May is the first World Fish Migration Day 2014(WFMD), a global initiative to promote awareness of the importance of migratory fish and healthy, free-flowing rivers. A total of 250 events are taking place worldwide based on the theme ‘connecting rivers, more »
New monitors from Busby Angling Club, Avon Angling club and the Nuffield Foundation have joined the Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (CRIMP) following a training workshop on the White Cart. During the practical session, CRIMPers spent time learning how to kick more »
Paul Knight, Salmon and Trout Association asks the question ‘How healthy is your River?’ in this month’s edition of Trout & Salmon magazine and encourages us as river enthusiasts to set our eyes on the flies. Paul said “Just a more »
Whitelee Windfarm Countryside Rangers Rennie Mason and Maree Morrison may have spotted the first Blue Winged Olive (BWO) mayfly of the season. Rennie and Maree joined CRIMP last month and have begun surveying the burns that run through the Whitelee Windfarm. more »
CRIMP’s third workshop was attended by five teachers from Brannock High School, including head teacher Robert Colquhoun. Brannock High has previously been involved in the Clyde River Foundation’s initiative, Clyde in the Classroom. This time they are going to use more »
The first CRIMP workshop of 2014 was held in Quarriers Village on Saturday 26th April. New eager CRIMPers attended from Bridge of Weir (River) Angling Club, Duncanrig Secondary School, Hollybrook Academy, Strathgryfe Angling Association and Whitelee Windfarm Countryside Ranger Service. more »
The practical part of Clyde in the Classroom project came to a close just before the Easter Holiday, as the last of the classroom-raised brown trout were released into the wild. With 102 classes taking part, we’ve enjoyed a busy more »
Interested in riverfly monitoring? We have a few places still available on our Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (CRIMP) training courses on Saturday May 3rd and 10th. Contact the project coordinator Lesley Deans to book a place: lesley.deans@glasgow.ac.uk. more »
East Kilbride Angling Club invited us along to their open day event at Greenhills Library on Saturday April 12th. The club set up a fly-tying demo, kid’s crafts, a raffle and even a collection of the library’s fishing literature! We took along more »
Our riverfly expert Lesley joined the Dams to Darnley Country Park Rangers Joe and Eilidh on Saturday 22 March for a fun-filled afternoon of riverfly sampling and ID as part of National Science & Engineering Week. The rangers, both of whom more »
A pollution incident which produced large amounts of foam on the River Clyde on Friday 4th April is thought to have been caused by an illegal discharge of detergent. Foam was also visible on the White Cart and some of its more »
Some photographs of the currently unexplained occurrence of foam on the River Clyde in Glasgow today. SEPA Officers are investigating. We will update when we have further information.
Fish scales, like trees, have growth rings which show the growth history of the fish and can therefore be a useful tool in fishery management. The Clyde River Foundation’s Fisheries Management Planner David McColl recently attended a scale reading course run more »
Thanks to everyone who came along to Caring for the Clyde on Saturday 8th March. The event was well attended with a total of 51 delegates including representation from 18 organisations. The Clyde River Foundation’s Lesley Deans presented an overview more »
If you are interested in ‘Caring for the Clyde’ there are a number of ways you can get involved as ‘Citizen Scientists’. You may wish to participate in the Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (‘CRIMP’, which was launched at our first meeting more »
The Clyde Riverfly Monitoring Partnership (CRIMP) got off to a great start in 2013. To find out what we have planned for the coming year, register today to attend our meeting on Saturday 8th March. Sign up for next year’s more »
Willie Yeomans, Catchment Manager of the Clyde River Foundation, attended the Clyde Water Framework Directive AAG meeting on October 11th where Stephen Cowie and George Rattray of SEPA presented the findings of an investigation into the fish kill which occurred more »