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