The March 2020 issue of ‘The River’ is now available. It includes an article on the recent flooding and a link to the RTC Annual Report. It should be noted that it was written before the most recent COVID-19 restrictions were announced. […]
River Tweed Commission COVID-19 Statement
Following the announcements made on Monday night by the UK and Scottish Governments there are now only a limited number of permissible reasons for leaving our homes. These reasons do not include leisure pursuits such as fishing. The new regime […]
2019 RTC Annual Report
The River Tweed Commission (RTC) published its 2019 Annual Report this morning at its AGM in Kelso. The RTC’s figures for last season showed a modest improvement on 2018, when exceedingly dry conditions for many months depressed catches. 6,814 salmon […]
First 2020 issue of ‘the River’ now available online
The February 2020 issue of ‘the River’ includes a plea for anglers to look out for more tagged fish this season. Tweed boatmen are helping the RTC with a tagging scheme to learn more about second recaptures in the river […]
Official 2019 Tweed catch sees a small improvement on the previous season
The River Tweed Commission’s official catch figures for the 2019 season can now be revealed. The total Salmon catch last season was 6,814 compared to 6,129 in 2018. 6,382 salmon were caught by rod and line (5,644 in 2018) and […]
RTC Annual General Meeting – March 2020
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN OF The River Tweed Commission’s Annual General Meeting which will be held on Monday, 2nd March 2020 at 09.30am at The Ednam House Hotel, Bridge Street, Kelso The AGM is a public meeting and all are welcome […]
Tweed education work benefits from FishPal donation
FishPal presented The Tweed Foundation with a cheque of £585 yesterday. The donation is collected from anglers when booking their fishing on FishPal’s Tweed pages. Tweed Foundation Director, Fay Hieatt, said “We are incredibly grateful to FishPal and the Tweed […]
Vacancies with the River Tweed Commission
The River Tweed Commission has the following two employment opportunities: CLERK TO THE RIVER TWEED COMMISSION & DIRECTOR OF THE TWEED FOUNDATION An opportunity to shape fisheries management on the River Tweed (Up to £65,000) Based near Melrose The […]
Help Track Tweed Smolts down to the estuary this Spring……
TWEED SALMON SMOLT SURVIVAL STUDY 2020 Following on from our pilot acoustic tracking study in Spring 2019, the Tweed Foundation will be tagging 150 salmon smolts next Spring to discover how many reach the sea and where the losses take […]
Tweedstart celebrates International Year of the Salmon in film
To celebrate 2019 as the International Year of the Salmon, TweedStart has created an angling development film. The idea and creation of Eoin Fairgrieve, the short film can be viewed here. To celebrate the International Year of the Salmon, Tweedstart invited […]