A Happy New Year to all our readers and we wish you all a prosperous 2018. The first real post of our activities in the New Year should always be an interesting one and this one is. Back in july 2017 we installed a tracker into Ayr harbour for Marine Science Scotland as part of their nationwide monitoring of salmon movements. Around 80 salmon were netted and tagged at Armadale in north of Scotland before being released to continue their migration to their home rivers. The plan was to tag several hundred but MSS were unable to catch enough so…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – MSS Salmon Tracking Project – Ayrshire update.