21st May: Fish emergency – Ayrshire Rivers Trust and Stinchar District Salmon Fishery Board work with local contractor to save young salmon – Fisheries Management Scotland

21st May: Fish emergency – Ayrshire Rivers Trust and Stinchar District Salmon Fishery Board work with local contractor to save young salmon – Fisheries Management Scotland

The River Stinchar estuary in South Ayrshire was subject to situation that arises on the Stinchar periodically when strong sea tides and low water in the river meant that a large build-up of gravel blocked the river mouth to downstream migrating juvenile salmon. This local phenomenon means that wave action throws tonnes of shingle into a raised bank that can block the river mouth causing it to percolate through the gravel rather than over it, lea