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View Article  News on Recaptures of Tagged Fish
Reporting tagged fish recaptures supplies important information on fish behaviour   more »
View Article  Tweed Trout & Grayling Initiative: 2006 Log Book Draw Winners
Winners of the prize draw for returning a Log Book for the 2006 season are announced.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 22nd January
Largely paperwork again this week: consultations, an article, a funding application, a presentation on salmon sizes- and a trip to see the new Minister !    more »
View Article  New Report Underlines Vital Importance of Tweed Angling to Borders Economy
New independent study of the impact of fishing on Tweed concludes that it is worth just under £18 million p.a.   more »
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 15th January
A SEERAD consultation on alien species, evidence for a poaching case, drafting RTC policy on fish movements and analysis of salmon sizes for the RTC Annual Report this week.   more »
View Article  News on Tagged Grayling Recaptures
Following the tagging which took place on 16th December 2006, there are two reports of recaptured Grayling to date.   more »
View Article  First Count From the Gala Fish Counter
Autumn 2006 saw the Gala fish counter installed and the first data from fish travelling upstream on the Gala Water   more »
View Article  Ettrick Fish Counter Results - December 2006
The results from the fish counter on the Ettrick for December 2006 are attached below.   more »
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's week - Monday 8th January
Monday 8th January - Office work, lamprey trap and stocking policy this week.   more »
View Article  LAST CHANCE TO HAND IN TWEED TROUT & GRAYLING INITIATIVE CATCH LOG BOOKS
Time is running out to enter the Prize Draw for returned Catch Log Books from the 2006 season   more »
View Article  Look Out For Tagged Grayling!
Reporting recaptures of tagged Grayling to the Tweed Foundation helps with its dedicated Grayling exploitation study   more »
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View Article  Possible Link Between Size of Tweed Fish & Numbers of Grilse
As can be seen from this chart, when numbers caught in the second half of the season started to increase in the late 1940’s (black line), average size (white columns) began to decline slowly (solid blue arrow)   more »
View Article  Unanimous Agreement on Aquaculture & Fisheries Bill Principles
The Scottish Parliament has unanimously agreed the principles of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Bill.   more »
View Article  Tweed Salmon - Numerous, but Getting Smaller?
Long-term decline in average weight of fish caught began in the mid-1980's   more »
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View Article  Gyrodactylus - Scotland's Contingency Plan
A Gs Contingency Plan was published on Monday   more »
View Article  Ettrick Fish Counter results - November update

The November results for the Ettrick Fish Counter 5.pdf (81k) are in the file attachment Ettrick Fish Counter 5.pdf (81k) ...   more »

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View Article  VAWM SYMPOSIUM, LONDON

The veterinary Association for Wildlife Management (VAWM) held its 2nd symposium at The East India Club in St James's Square, ...   more »

View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - 4th December
Catch records and next year's strategy.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - 27th November
Catch records & radio interviews this week.   more »
View Article  Till Signal Crayfish - 25 & Counting.....
Signal Crayfish trapping has concluded for the year   more »
View Article  Peebles Fish Trap Update
Fiona traps some big fish in Peebles   more »
View Article  2006 Summer Electro-fishing Results
Summary reports available on this year's electro-fishing sites   more »
View Article  Catch The Online Log Book
Trout & Grayling Initiatiave launches an online version of the Catch Log Book for day ticket anglers   more »
View Article  Tweed Foundation December 2006 Newsletter
Tweed Foundation's December 2006 Newsletter now available   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 20th November
Trapping, "Scotsman" archives, scale-readings,a wildlife vets meeting and regulations to control fish introductions this week.   more »
View Article  Ellem Fishing Club - The Oldest Fishing Club In The World
"Ellem Fishing Club - The First 175 Years", a fascinating history of the club has recently been published   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - 13th November
Trap alterations, film crew, size trends in catches, scale reading, Ellem Fishing Club exhibition & Sea-trout in the trap for this week so far.   more »
View Article  New Legislation for Tweed Comes Into Force
The "Tweed Order" is now law, meaning the River Tweed Commission (as now known) operates under this new legislation   more »
View Article  Significant Captures of Signal Crayfish From The River Till
24 Signal Crayfish and counting for the River Till......   more »
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View Article  Launch of Winter Grayling Fishing Log Book
Launching a new log book for Grayling fishers will hopefully provide the Tweed Trout & Grayling Initiative with vital information   more »
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View Article  Ettrick Counter results for October 2006

Ettrick counter results for October . The count is complete from the 10th of October onwards, when the software ...   more »

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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - 6th November
Monday 6th November : Committees, Film Crews, Archives and Vets so far this week.   more »
View Article  The Trouble With Fish Counters ........
James Hunt explains why fish counters can be frustrating as well as informative   more »
View Article  Hawick Angling Club Invertebrate Sampling
A day out invertebrate sampling on the Teviot proves fun and educational for angling club members   more »
View Article  Exploitation Study Returns
Three recaptures from this year's tagged fish sample to date.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologists' Week - 30th October
26th October : The first big spate of the season brings the prospect of fish in the trout traps. These start operation on or around the 1st of October, but without spates,..   more »
View Article  Tweed Trout & Grayling Initiative Raffle for Hardy Rod

The Tweed Trout & Grayling Initiative Raffle took place on Tuesday 31st October, ...   more »

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View Article  Tweed Wheelyboat 'On Line' Shortly
The first Tweed Wheelyboat - "Tweedability I" - was officially launched by Chris Tarrant on 10th October 2006    more »
View Article  15th International Salmonid Conference
The Tweed Foundation took part in the 'Salmonids in the 21st Century' conference held in Newcastle Upon Tyne this month   more »
View Article  The Gala Fish Counter
Gala fish counter now fully operational   more »
View Article  Upper Tweed Traps in Operation for the Autumn
The two Upper Tweed traps that the Foundation runs began their autumn operation on 7th October.  To date there have been ...   more »
View Article  Crayfish Trapping on River Till
Trapping started at the beginning of the week and by today's date, 8 specimens have been trapped; this is a ...   more »
View Article  Signal Crayfish trapping on River Till

The Tweed Foundation has started a trapping programme to ascertain the extend of the Signal Crayfish population in the Till following ...   more »

View Article  Curtailing the Alien Invasion
Following the discovery of Signal Crayfish in the Upper Ettrick two years ago and, more recently, this summer, two specimens in the   more »
View Article  New barrier to be broken on Tweed with launch of revolutionary boat by Chris Tarrant

The arrival of an ingenious and innovative new boat will for the first time allow access to disabled anglers for ...   more »

View Article  Small Salmon
Changes in the Weight Distribution of Autumn rod-caught Salmon on the Tweed.   more »
View Article  Gala fish video
The new counter has been installed and is now working.
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