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View Article  Exploitation Netting - Early Recapture
Tagging from the nets yields recapture 8 days later...   more »
View Article  Last Chance To Bag Remaining Tweed Auction Days
Two opportunities to fish for Salmon this autumn courtesy of the Tweed Foundation's annual Auction   more »
View Article  Fish Counter Results - August 2007
Fish Counter Results for August 2007   more »
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 24th September
Electric-fishing takeable trout in the Whiteadder, cleaning the Ettrick counter, checking access into the Slitrig and building trout traps the main items this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 17th September
Netting fish for tagging at Paxton and Brown-trout and Grayling at Walkerburn. A BBC producer and the last Ettrick and Yarrow electric-fishing this week.   more »
View Article  An Evening & Auction With Chris Tarrant For Tweed Wheelyboats
An ambitious fund raising evening to raise money for more boats for disabled anglers on Tweed is taking place this October   more »
View Article  River Tweed Commission Publishes Bicentenary Book
To coincide with the Bicentenary of the River Tweed Commission, a book has been published tracing its beginnings.....   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 10th September
Electric-fishing on the Ettrick and Yarrow and the Foundation's AGM so far this week.   more »
View Article  River Tweed Commission - 200 years old

In 1807, Parliament passed the legislation which formed the River Tweed Commissioners, now the River Tweed Commission. The moving force ...   more »

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View Article  Further update - Grilse with Swollen Vents

Following the earlier appeal for a fish with a bleeding vent to be handed in to the Tweed Foundation for ...   more »

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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 3rd September
The RTC Bicentennial Council meeting, electric-fishing of the Ettrick and equipment problems so far this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 27th August
Building a trout trap; electric-fishing the Talla, Fruid and Dye Waters and more bloody vents this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 20th August
Trap modifications, scale collection, forensics and electric-fishing so far this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 13th August
Electric-fishing on the Leet & Till; discussions about a North Sea Sea-trout programme; the RAFTS management planning contract and Scottish Salmon genetics research this week.   more »
View Article  UPDATE - Grilse with Swollen Vents
Further fish with red, swollen vent appears on Tweed and an autopsy provides important clues as to possible cause......   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 6th August
Trap repairs, estuary trapping, fish with bleeding vents and electric-fishing this week.   more »
View Article  ALERT! GRILSE WITH RED, SWOLLEN VENTS
Grilse with red, swollen vent are appearing on Tweed. Your help is needed to record these fish ...   more »
View Article  Fish Counter Results - 2007 July
The Ettrick counter was out of action, again, for the whole of this month, and so has missed the fish that would be expect to have travelled up the Ettrick on the high water. The Gala counter, however, was in operation   more »
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 30th July
Tagged Grayling autopsy, the Tweedsmuir trap, Bullheads and Grilse with swollen vents so far this week.   more »
View Article  The RTC's Tweed Committee - 200 Years of River Management
The RTC's committee celebrates 200 years of the organisation's existence as the river management body on Tweed   more »
View Article  Update on Tagged Grayling Recaptures
Recaptured tagged Grayling shows more movement in the River than previously known for the species   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 23rd July
A Pacific Salmon turns up in the Tweed ! Work on the Tweed model for the Kelso show and the Tweedsmuir trap.   more »
View Article  Pacific Salmon Holidays On Tweed!
A Pacific Salmon turns up on Tweed   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 16th July
Fieldwork still washed out this week, so inside working instead - history of Tweed salmon rod fisheries the main Management Manual work. Almost finished the model of the Tweed for the Kelso show.   more »
View Article  First Salmon of 2007 Ascends the Gala Water
The Tweed Foundation's fish counter on the Gala Water starts adding to its database of Salmon movements upstream   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 9th July
Sediment and Salmon; making a model of the Tweed; planning a re-run of a 1970's trout trap and trying the estuary trap again this week.   more »
View Article  Fishing the Lesser-Known Areas of the Tweed catchment
A Tweed Foundation fishing trip has a serious research purpose........   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday July 2nd
Signal Crayfish report writing and washed off the river so far this week.   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 25th June
Adjusting work to the water levels. The Ettrick counter returns from Iceland but can;t get it to work fully. Get some ideas for trout trap improvement and try out the estuary trap.   more »
View Article  Summer Electro-fishing Surveys in the Tweed catchment
All are invited to come and see what can be found in Tweed's burns   more »
View Article  Tweed Foundation - Latest Annual Report
The 2006 Annual Report from the Tweed Foundation is now available   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week : Monday 18th June
Admin, giving evidence in the Berwick Magistrates' Court and an angling survey so far this week.   more »
View Article  Tweed Auction 2007 : Remaining Lots
Some Auction lots still on offer. An opportunity to bag some prime fishing this autumn on Tweed .....   more »
View Article  First Brown Trout Pass Through The Gala Counter
Update on the new Gala fish counter   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week - Monday 4th June
The estuary trap; temperature dataloggers download; the fieldwork programme for the summer and netting the river at Coldstream this week.   more »
View Article  Last Week To Bid In Tweed Auction
Last chance to put a bid in for prime autumn fishing on Tweed   more »
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View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's Week : Monday 28th May
The estuary trap and the management manual are the main themes for this week.   more »
View Article  Fish Counter Results for May 2007
A respectable total for the month   more »
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View Article  Tweed Bird Counts
One of the annual bird counts help to monitor the impact on fish stocks   more »
View Article  A Tweed Fisheries Biologist's week - Monday 21st May
Working on the trap for the estuary and the Management Manual and rediscover data on tagged Sea-trout smolts from the 1950's this week.   more »