Day 1

Here are presentations from the 25th Annual SFCC Conference, held in February 2023.

SFCC Members Updates

Ayrshire Rivers Trust

Beauly District Salmon Fishery Board

River Dee Trust

Deveron, Bogie & Isla Rivers Trust

Forth Rivers Trust

Galloway Rivers Trust

Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries Trust

Ness District Salmon Fishery Board

Spey Foundation

Tweed Foundation

Wester Ross Fisheries Trust


Peatland ACTION – Stephen Varwell


Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation – Victoria Pritchard, University of the Highlands and Islands


Wild Salmon Implementation Plan – John Armstrong, Lyndsay Christie & Alex Kinninmonth, Marine Directorate


Day 2

SFCC: The First 25 Years – James Hunt, The Tweed Foundation

Using drones and high-resolution remote sensing for habitat mapping in salmonid streams – Stephen Dugdale, University of Nottingham

An overview of the Moray Firth Tracking Project – Angus Lothian, Atlantic Salmon Trust

SFCC Database Functions and Workflow – Sean Robertson, SFCC

River Garry Restoration: Long-term monitoring of Fish and Hydromorphology – David Summers Tay DSFB & , Alasdair Matheson, SEPA

The Findhorn Watershed Initiative – Bob Laughton, Findhorn, Nairn & Lossie Rivers Trust

River Shin Restoration – Storymaps for reporting progress & Hydromorphology Monitoring – Leanne Munro, Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries Trust & Hamish Moir, CBEC eco-engineering

Ecological effects of restoration of salmon carcasses to upland streams – Fionn Bernthal, University of Glasgow