Catch records flood attenuation and the 175th anniversary of the Ellem Fishing Club this week.   more »

Tweed's 'excessively lazy Grayling' theory continues   more »

First fish this year reach the Ettrick fish counter   more »

Job appraisals and admin & the history of Tweed netting so far this week..   more »

Initiative seeks as many anglers as possible to complete 2007 Catch Log Books   more »

RTC ex-work vehicle seeks new home!   more »

Applicants invited for a six-month post with the Foundation   more »

Crayfish control research, government non-native species strategy, some 18th century papers, catch records and trout and lamprey traps this week.   more »

The deadly parasite Gyrodactylus salaris (Gs) is tackled head-on by the new Bill   more »

The new Tweed Trout Code of Conduct has just been published   more »

Grayling caught twice in one day by two different anglers   more »

The 'Tweed Order' places responsibility for stocking on Tweed with the River Tweed Commission   more »

RTC AGM, money for crayfish research, management manual, responding to consultants' data requests and analyses of the spawning on the Ettrick so far this week.   more »

Continuing healthy catch numbers for Tweed   more »

Finally onto this month's main work theme - revising and adding to the Tweed Fisheries Management Manual.    more »

Two evenings of presentations which should be of interest to all trout and grayling anglers on Tweed   more »

The launch of the first Irish rivers trust; the closure of Irish salmon rivers and the first proper meeting on Signal Crayfish this week   more »

Blue Salmon, consultations, the effect of the drift net buy-out on rod catches and a visit from our local MP this week.   more »

The Borders MP, Michael Moore, spent a day with the River Tweed Commission and Tweed Foundation on the River last week   more »

News of a recaptured salmon tagged at Paxton netting station on 18th September 2006 reaches the Foundation - from Oslo   more »

Hardys & Greys voucher for £500 top prize in Log Book draw   more »

Goosander count, Rhine salmon, data analysis and lengths and weights from the 1890's, more consultations and the RTC annual report   more »

Evidence gathering for lack of grayling movement in the river   more »

More on Salmon sizes, the boatmens meeting, article writing & RTC history the themes of this week.   more »

Reporting tagged fish recaptures supplies important information on fish behaviour   more »

Winners of the prize draw for returning a Log Book for the 2006 season are announced.   more »

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 »

New independent study of the impact of fishing on Tweed concludes that it is worth just under £18 million p.a.   more »

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 »

Following the tagging which took place on 16th December 2006, there are two reports of recaptured Grayling to date.   more »

Autumn 2006 saw the Gala fish counter installed and the first data from fish travelling upstream on the Gala Water   more »

The results from the fish counter on the Ettrick for December 2006 are attached below.   more »

Monday 8th January - Office work, lamprey trap and stocking policy this week.   more »

Time is running out to enter the Prize Draw for returned Catch Log Books from the 2006 season   more »

Reporting recaptures of tagged Grayling to the Tweed Foundation helps with its dedicated Grayling exploitation study   more »

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 »

The Scottish Parliament has unanimously agreed the principles of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Bill.   more »

Long-term decline in average weight of fish caught began in the mid-1980's   more »

A Gs Contingency Plan was published on Monday   more »

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