Tweed Foundation Biology Work – March 2019
Summarising some of the work The Tweed Foundation has undertaken during the last two months…………. Management Plan: Smolt tracking receiver installation and range testing (JH, KG), Smolt trapping and tagging (JH, KG), Brown trout acoustic tracking (KG), River Temperature Monitoring […]
March 2019 provisional fish counter totals
The March provisional totals for the Tweed fish counters can be found at the following link :- Fish counter provisional totals The first Salmon counted through the Ettrick Counter was on the 20th March and measured 78 cm. For the […]
March issue of ‘the River’ now online
The March issue includes: updates on The Tweed Foundation’s new smolts tracking work, a new study about to start to look at the diet of avian predators, a plea for more anglers to take scale samples from Springers, and more. […]
Tweed Smolt Tracking Study ready to go – Help by Sponsoring a Smolt on its journey to the sea…….
Preparations are well under way for the Tweed Salmon Smolt tracking project. Tracking receivers are in now in place and tagging of pre-smolts will start as soon as the river drops down this week. The project will help us to […]
Study of Fish-eating Birds’ Diet starts on Tweed
2019 in the International Year of the Salmon and provides us with an opportunity to highlight some important studies that are taking place to help ensure the survival of the iconic Atlantic Salmon, which is in sharp decline in major […]
Official 2018 Tweed catch announced
The River Tweed Commission’s (RTC) 2018 Annual Report confirms that last season’s official overall Salmon catch figure was 6,129. The Salmon rod catch, at 5,644, represented a further fall in catches for the fourth year running. The Spring catch last […]
February issue of ‘the River’ online now
In the first issue of 2019: Update on predation control; New Studies on Smolts starting, and how you can get involved; Monitoring results from summer 2018; Tweed Angling Codes update; Report on the 2018 Brown Trout. The Tweed Fisheries Management […]
Could you be a River Tweed Commissioner?
Scottish Borders Council are looking for Borderers with an interest in the River Tweed to serve on the River Tweed Commission (RTC). The RTC is made up of Tweed Proprietors and local representatives – the local representatives being appointed by […]
Tracking Tweed’s Salmon Smolts
TWEED SALMON SMOLT SURVIVAL The Salmon Smolt is the final product of the river. Losses at this stage of the life cycle cannot be replaced. With numbers of returning adult Salmon continuing to decline due to increasing marine mortality, we […]
Northumberland Drift Nets to Close from 2019
The River Tweed Commission has welcomed the news that the North East Drift Net Fishery is closing and will not be taking Salmon from the 2019 season. Fay Hieatt, Clerk to the Commission said, “The River Tweed Commission welcomes the […]