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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 29th June
A week of meetings.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 22nd June
A Brown-trout with Furunculosis, approval of the Living North Seas programme and electric-fishing Bullhead so far this week.   more »
View Article  Seine Netting on Tweed
Different netting techniques enable the Tweed Foundation to capture useful data   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Saturday 6th June
Netting & tagging, Lamprey & Bullhead surveys, a visitor from NZ and netting the river at Coldstream this week.   more »
View Article  LOOK OUT FOR TAGGED FISH
Tagged fish are now in the River again....   more »
View Article  A Bright Start to the Peebles Angling Open Day
A good turn-out on a day more suited to sunbathing than fishing.......   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologists Week - Monday 1st June
The RTC quarterly meeting, netting on the Upper Tweed, Bullhead monitoring and the Glendale Childrens' Country show so far this week.   more »
View Article  Fish Counter results to end May 2009
Ettrick fish counter results to the end of May: Contrary to expectations based on the poor catches and on the periods of very low water on the Ettrick this Spring, the counter results have been within the range of previous Mays. The headline Salmon count is 133 so far.
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Saturday 23rd May
Traps, a giant smolt, a Goosander count and Spring Salmon population analyses this week.   more »
View Article  Fishmongers' Pay A Flying Visit To Tweed
The Fishmongers' Company comes to visit some recent initiatives on Tweed......    more »
View Article  Salmon & Trout Association Highlights Implications of Beaver Impacts On Salmon
The Beaver trial beginning in Scotland is under the spotlight following the findings of a major new study......   more »
View Article  The Next Generation Appearing
Our future years' catches are now emerging in the headwaters........   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologists' Week - Monday 18th May
Admin, a meeting on stocking policy, drafting for the Code of Good Practice in fisheries management and discussions on Spring Salmon so far this week.    more »
View Article  Tweed Fish Counter Results - April 2009

The fish counter results for April and for May so far are in line with previous years, though this early in the season, the counts are very erratic, ranging from a few tens to a few hundreds. Fish were showing at the Ettrick cauld today (19th May - a small spate)

Results on Attachment.

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View Article  Scottish Government Steps Up Its Campaign Against Gs
We must not get complacent about the ever-present threat that Gyrodactylus salaris poses to our Salmon stocks....   more »
View Article  TweedStart's Rod Raffle Results
Winners of the Rod Raffle announced...........   more »
View Article  Booked your Tweed Autumn Fishing?
The Tweed Foundation's Auction may be a good place to start!   more »
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 4th May
The Tweed Angling Fair, fish traps and a foreign tag so far this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 27th April
Bullheads, another presentation on Beavers, spring salmon data analyses and a Fisheries Management Code of Good Practice meeting this week.   more »
View Article  Visit our stand at the 2009 Tweed Angling Fair
Saturday, 2nd & Sunday 3rd May 2009 - dates for your diary   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 20rd April
Preparing teaching materials on scale reading, the first big catch of smolts in a trap this season, some regurgitated smolts and a Goosander count this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 13th April
Traps, Willow plantings, a Workshop on Sea-trout and a visit from the Gaula and Orkla rivers in Norway.    more »
View Article  Spring Run 2009 Antecedents
Explaining where our 2009 Springers originated....   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 6th April
Writing up last week's lamprey survey, a Trustees' meeting, Coarse fish stocking applications and a presentation on Sea-trout so far this week.    more »
View Article  March Browns in April
Tweed provides March Browns for identification key   more »
View Article  SIGHTINGS OF BROOK LAMPREY SPAWNING SITES
Help in reporting Lamprey spawning sites on Tweed sought   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 30th March
A visit from Napier University, traps, Biosecurity and Gill Maggots this week so far.    more »
View Article  HOOK AN EXCELLENT PRIZE IN THE ROD RAFFLE
Around £2,200 worth of prizes to play for in TweedStart's ROD RAFFLE   more »
View Article  BEAVERS' HABITATS FIRST-HAND
Visit to a Scottish Beaver colony........   more »
View Article  Lack of Spring Fish
Fresh Springers are scarce this year.....   more »
View Article  Gill Maggots and Spring Salmon
Tweed Foundation Biologist, Dr Ronald Campbell, explains more on the recent incidents of gill maggots....   more »
View Article  Exploitation Netting At Paxton Netting Station
Update to The Foundation's summer exploitation netting programme...   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 23rd March
Euro budgets and smolt traps so far this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week: Monday 16th March
European budgets, Code of Good Practice, Whiteadder fisheries, smolt trap preparations and finding out how English fish farms are monitored for disease.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 9th March
The RAFTS annual conference and a visit to se some Beavers this week.    more »
View Article  2009 Spring Salmon Conservation Measures on Tweed
New rules for Spring Salmon Conservation in 2009   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 2nd March
The RTC AGM and more North Sea Sea-trout work this week.   more »
View Article  Tweed Fisheries Management Plan
Tweed Fisheries Management Plan goes online   more »