The third week in July is the week we always commence timed electrofishing surveys across the 4 District Salmon Fishery Board controlled rivers. We do this as part of the work we deliver for the DSFBs annually and it’s a rapid assessment of spawning success as it is designed to be a fry survey. We do capture parr too but the results from these surveys are only analysed using  the fry data. We started last week on the Ayr but water levels were rising and we ended up leaving this river until water levels drop back after only managing to…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – Timed Electrofishing 2020