With one team electrofishing on the Girvan catchment the other team made an early start and headed down to the Stinchar valley to monitor a handful of tributary sites yesterday. Year to year populations fluctuate for a variety of reasons not least due to the availability and ability of the returning adult fish to populate areas and the environmental conditions that allow them to access these locations. With that said reports on the Stinchar last season were of a river full of fish and good winter spawning conditions (also indicated by our main river surveys so far). A ccolourful brownie…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – Stinchar Tributary Electrofishing Surveys