Conference presentations

Session 1:

Opening Address by Mairi Gougeon MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands

Alan Wells (Fisheries Management Scotland) – Charting a course for restoring Scotland’s rivers 

John Armstrong (Marine Directorate) – The state of Scotland’s salmon 

Iain Malcolm & Nora Hanson (Marine Directorate) – National and International monitoring programmes – what do they tell us? 

Session 2: 

Peter Pollard (SEPA) – The Sea Lice Risk Assessment Framework

Colin Bean (NatureScot) – Using eDNA to map Pink salmon

Keith Williams (Kyle Fisheries & IFM) – The ongoing importance of fisheries enforcement 

Brian Shaw (Ness DSFB) – Pumped Storage hydro on Loch Ness

Session 3: 

Wendy Kenyon (Missing Salmon Alliance) – Wild Salmon Connections: A renewed international focus for endangered wild salmon 

Stuart Singleton White (The Angling Trust) – Working together to make a difference – The Missing Salmon Alliance

Sean Robertson (Scottish Fisheries Coordination Centre) – From Streams to Screens: Developing Fishery Management Plans Across Scotland with GIS 

Paul Sizeland & Leah Reinfranck (Fisheries Management Scotland) – Nature finance supporting rivers and communities from “Source to Sea” 

Gill Renwick (Scottish Power Energy Networks) – New opportunities for biodiversity enhancement 

Lorraine Hawkins (River Dee) & Melanie Smith (AST) – Save the Spring on the River Dee

Elle Adams & Guy Harris (Findhorn, Nairn & Lossie Rivers Trust) – The Findhorn Watershed Initiative – The story so far