Ayrshire Rivers Trust: The Impacts of Plantation Forestry on Brown Trout.

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This video looks at the work Ayrshire Rivers Trust are/have carried out to help protect and improve a loch trout population impacted by forestry plantations in Ayrshire. With severely degraded spawning habitat ART reluctantly ran a small trout egg incubator to help boost the productivity of a key spawning burn where habitat has become so impacted by sediment that trout numbers are becoming increasingly depressed.

[@paulblackwildfishing8686]

Take a bow lads. Use are doing a phenomenal job. Every river and burn in the country could do with a few more men like yourselves. You have my upmost respect👍👏

[@danmac5510]

Your doing great work

[@jsboyle3459]

Nice wee video

[@GrahamBirse]

Great work lads. I still cannot understand why SEPA do not protect habitat around the burns and lochs by imposing a ban on conifer plantations, say within 25 yards.

[@silva-anderida7695]

Yes,the trees must take the water,too,that would otherwise flush the stream.I'm very surprised at how near to the stream trees are planted.Not much would be lost by the foresters,surely,to leave a bit of space.Interesting.Cheers!