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What Happened? Following storm damage and subsequent escape of nearly 50,000 adult salmon from Carradale North Salmon Farm last week, the Clyde River Foundation is part of a consortium attempting to protect our wild fisheries from damage caused by the escapees.  Fisheries Management Scotland have produced a useful summary of the incident: http://fms.scot/update-on-storm-damage-at-carradale-north-salmon-farm/    What more »

Our fieldwork has demonstrated that a fish pass installed on the Gotter Water, Inverclyde allowed salmon to breed upstream of the weir in Quarrier’s Village for the first time in 120 years. The pass was completed in December 2019 and worked at the first time of asking; juvenile salmon were detected over almost all of more »

Salmon Recolonising the Avon Water, South Lanarkshire The Clyde River Foundation’s programme of electrofishing surveys in 2019 included a targeted survey for salmon in the Avon Water, following the full restoration of the fish pass at Millheugh Weir, Larkhall. Two year classes of juvenile salmon were caught above Millheugh Weir but not above Craig Mill more »

Here is the fabulous video from St Bartholomew’s Primary School which won the competition this year! They spent their prize day at their local river for #OutdoorClassroomDay!  We were so impressed with all of the incredible entries, thanks to everyone involved! 

Now that summer has ofFISHially began, our exciting project ‘Fish in Schools’ (FinS) has been successfully completed. All 15 schools involved in this project have done a brilliant job looking after their brown trout, learning about our native species and releasing their fish in to local burns. Through caring for fish in their very own more »