Now Jonny Archer RiverTweed highlights potential of catch rod data from #anglers to understand adult brown #trout populations. Less killing and more catch and release. Fishing stable. High recapture rate might mean trophy #trout are back and bigger #SFG109 Scottish Freshwater Group (SFG)

Excited to discuss resident brown trout, rod catch, and spot pattern recognition data on the River Tweed at the Scottish Freshwater Group this Thursday! 🎣🏞️ Rebecca Lewis Scottish Freshwater Group (SFG) Colin Bull Nigel Willby Pauline Lang RiverTweed

A nice little project to try my first time eDNA sampling.

Tweed Foundation biologists eDNA sampling for the presence of invasive, non-native pacific pink salmon. Part 2 Fisheries Management Scotland Former NatureScot account Scot Gov Marine Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

For anyone who is interested. I am giving a talk on Brown trout movements within the Tweed on the 23rd March. The talk will be aimed towards people from a variety of backgrounds.

It’s nice to see the end point in the water temperature data we collected, that Faye Jackson et al, analysed. To where we have on the ground implementation for catchment resilience, against high summer temperature. Science at its best!

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Our new brief communication in #JFB is published today! We show decreases in under yearling Atlantic salmon log biomass and log density as they experienced high summer temperatures in Scottish upland streams 🐟🌡️ fsbi
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

We have begun this years timed electro-fishing on the River Till! Each site we visited produced bucketloads of fish, and at the last site of the day, within 3 minutes we caught...
▪️234 Trout fry
▪️6 Trout parr
▪️99 Salmon fry
▪️15 Salmon parr

In the past 3-4 years I’ve had the pleasure of seeing and videoing many otters mostly SCENE but last nights encounter on the Tweed wins the contest for my heart🥰 James Hunt RiverTweed Suzanna BBC Springwatch

Out at the top of the Tweed yesterday with Jonny Archer starting something exciting with temperature monitoring. Despite the wet weather it was a good day of fieldwork.

That's the final Salmon smolt tagged out of 216 for this year's acoustic tagging project, we are conducting for @marinescotland. We used 60, 180khz V5 Innovasea and 156, 416khz JAST from @LotekWireles. We cannot wait for the results! Jonny Archer Suzanna James Hunt

After helping 6 Acoustic taggers over 3 years Matt Newton Hannele Honkanen Angus Lothian Amy Green Jessie Lilly Chris Conroy I finally joined the taggers club by tagging 90 salmons smolts! Now to tag 20 25cm+ brown trout on the lower Tweed. Just have to catch em first 😬

A successful few days of tracking smolts has been had but judging from today footage you would never guess we were tracking on the River Tweed and not in a highly eutrophic pond mid summer James Hunt Suzanna RiverTweed Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) #trackingnotslacking @marinescotland

Today I relived the joys of manual tracking smolts although my stint today wasn’t the epic journey I had on the Deveron Bogie Isla with Fearghail Armstrong and I didn’t have a canoe and gin unlike louise chavarie SCENE but the mini eggs did the trick 😂

1/6 #BOU2022 #SESH1 #ornithology
🌆Urbanisation is occurring rapidly. For animal species, urban areas create novel selection pressures by:
1. Increasing amount of impervious surfaces;
2. Altering microclimates;
3. And changing community composition.

Thanks Rebecca Lewis it was great to finally meet you in person and to join the Riverfly Partnership partnership today. I look forward to start monitoring on the Tweed! for with Suzanna, RiverTweed, Borders Forest Trust and the other volunteers! An example were collaboration is key!