Beware – Potential fish disease threat in Scotland
KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR DISEASED FISH Reports of fish exhibiting signs of bleeding and / or ulceration are being caught in Norway, Ireland and Scotland. These symptoms are being reported as mainly along the belly area, between the head […]
Great Tweed Raffle now LIVE
2019 The GREAT Tweed Raffle BUY TICKETS – See below for details Additional prize just added – Fantastic Limited-Edition Tweed Salmon Print All proceeds to help fund The Tweed Foundation‘s Salmon Smolt work on the Tweed With numbers of returning […]
May issue of ‘the River’ now available
The May 2019 issue of ‘the River’ includes: comment on this year’s smolt run, and an update on the smolt tracking study, as well as a report on the education work of the Tweed Foundation, including our pilot project on Eels in […]
2019 International Year of the Salmon – Tweed Events
Monitoring Tweed Salmon Smolt Migration The Tweed Foundation is tagging Salmon smolts this Spring Come along and learn more about our new smolt trap and our fish counter on the Gala Water. We’ll explain how the counter works, and you’ll […]
April issue of ‘the River’ now available
The April 2019 issue of the River includes: updates on The Tweed Foundation’s two smolt tracking studies, progress on the diet analysis study, and an interesting piece on a rather special Brown Trout. The Tweed Fisheries Management bodies – the […]
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 […]