Tweed Foundation – Biology Work November & December 2014
Summarising some of the work that The Tweed Foundation has undertaken over the preceding month…. Management Plan: Salmon catch data and scales were collected up and analyses begun. The October piscivorous birds count was finally made, after having been cancelled […]
Fishing Tweed this autumn ….. with a Wheelyboat
Bill Elderkin used “Tweedability II”, one of the Tweed Wheelyboats, to fish Boleside at the beginning of November. Bill has been fishing at the middle Tweed beat of Boleside for 30 years, and so knows the river – and its […]
Tweed BioBlog : Mainly indoors
Monday 3rd – Friday 7th November 2014: Mainly indoors all week, meetings about the budget for next year; a new counter for the Philiphaugh fish pass and about the Wild Fisheries Review report. Two outings: one to put in temperature […]
Tweed Foundation – Biology Work in October 2014
Summarising some of the work that The Tweed Foundation has undertaken over the preceding month…. Management Plan: Trapping of fish at the Gala fish pass to collect data and validate the fish counter was undertaken by the biological team . […]
Tweed BioBlog : Spates, meetings and tagging
Wednesday 29th October 2014: Water too high for anything on the river today, so everyone in the office trying to catch up on reports and data processing. When something of high priority like the radio-tracking at Philiphaugh comes along, everyone […]
Tweed Fishing available in November 2014
Some days are still available for November fishing as part of The Tweed Foundation’s Annual Autumn Fishing Auction. Buying your fishing from the Auction helps support the work of The Tweed Foundation. Still on offer are: Tillmouth. Two rods on Monday, […]
Tweed BioBlog : Yet more radio-tagging
Monday 27th October 2014: On a report from James out at the Murray Cauld that water conditions were right and fish were showing, all out to do more netting and radio-tagging. The first session was the most productive, with the […]
Tweed BioBlog : More radio tagging
Wednesday 22nd October 2014: In the afternoon, everyone out to Philiphaugh to get fish for radio-tracking. Water a bit high for netting below the cauld, but managed to get three salmon, two males and a female. Also took scales from […]
Torne & Tweed: Cross-border rivers swap information
Earlier this month the River Tweed Commission and Tweed Foundation hosted a visit from a study group of biologists, landowners and small business owners from the Torne River in northern Sweden. Although 2,000 miles or more apart, the Torne and […]
Tweed BioBlog : trapping on the Gala
Monday 20th October 2014: As conditions were right again, after the rain, out with Kenny in the afternoon to run the trap in the Skinworks Cauld on the Gala again. About 1,000 fish had gone up over the weekend but the […]