A talk in Devon, setting up acoustic listening stations & offshore windfarms this week.   more »

A late spawning male, alien invasives and a two-day Trout Stream Management workshop this week.    more »

The code of good practice for fisheries management, checking the lower river for acoustic tracking sites, a trip to Galloway for spawning sparling and wind-powered Eels and electricity this week.   more »

Exciting new work on Tweed's Sea-trout stock commences......   more »

A tireless worker......   more »

The acoustic tags and tracking gear arrive, a paper on historic catch records, the annual RAFTS conference and finishing off last year's trapping data entry this week.   more »

Tweed's 2009 catch was better than some believed it would be............   more »

The RTC's AGM; trout genetics survey planning; cleaning up the smolt traps; bird count admin and hybrid juveniles this week.   more »

Opportunity to purchase RTC 4x4 van....   more »

River Tweed Commission introduces a carcass-tagging scheme for net caught Salmon and Sea-trout from the Tweed District today.....   more »

Tweed Foundation paper sheds light on Tweed fish sizes......   more »

All anglers should be aware of the new rules for Spring Salmon fishing on Tweed....   more »

Fish counter totals for the Ettrick and the Gala   more »

The Winter closedown and the prospects for next year.   more »

Decision taking to stop trapping as waters too high, a 10oz Grilse examined and the data for the annual control licence for Goosanders this week.    more »

Monday 16th November: Almost the whole day out at   more »

Monday 9th November: Catching up on   more »

A major new area of work with Sea-trout populations offers the chance of research with The Tweed Foundation.....   more »

Fish Counter results for October 2009 : (see attachment) The Ettrick had a record headline count for an October, only the third time that 4,000 has been exceeded. The September count was the second lowest on record, fish ceasing to run in the second half of that month as water levels became very low, so it seems that the fish that could not run then, ran in October instead. However, the combined September and October totals for this year are also very good, and with November still to come, the overall count for this year has already passed the annual totals of 2004, 2007 and 2008 and is more or less equal to the total for 2003. The breakdown into Salmon and Trout totals will, however, take some time as the software glitch has meant that instead of 10 seconds of video for each fish, there are three still photographs instead, so there is  less information for each fish on which to base an identification, making it more difficult - and longer. This was, again, a very good Sea-trout year, so a good count of trout is expected.

The Gala count for October was also very good, almost exactly the same as last October. We have now had two high and two low October counts here, so it is still not clear what is "normal". The overall total for this year is already past that of 2007.

Traps and floods and a suicidal salmon so far this week.   more »

On fish trap duty this week.   more »

Trap maintenance, electric-fishing on the Wooler Water and the first Brown-trout of the season in the traps so far this week.   more »

Water temperature recording and Euro budgets so far this week.   more »

The Gala cauld gets a new entrance to aid fish passage   more »

First recapture comes later than usual........   more »

Fish Counter Results for September 2009 (Attached) : September really was a month of two halves, high water for the first and low for the second. The Ettrick results are about half what would be expected for September, perhaps because there was only a half month of good running conditions - the next spate will show. The Gala figures are very close to those of 2007 and down on those of 2008. Again, the next spate will really show what this year's totals are to be like.

Genetics steering group meeting, admin and the recapture of tagged fish so far this week.   more »

The Philiphaugh Salmon Homecoming and meetings on Fisheries Management Good Practice and on Goosander counts this week.   more »

Trap repairs, data entry and collecting up samples for genetics analysis so far this week.   more »

Electric-fishing on the lower Ettrick and netting and tagging so far this week.   more »

Tweed's Spring Salmon Conservation Measures will change in 2010.......   more »

Where our Spring fish come from.....   more »

Prime dates on offer this autumn on Tweed........   more »

A newly published paper explains why Tweed does not need help from a hatchery....   more »

Attempting electric-fishing on the Ettrick and Yarrow and a meeting on EU project management so far this week.    more »