UK: Salmon farmers fund five wild fish restoration projects
Salmon
United Kingdom
Published Jun 23, 2022
Tridge summary
Mending a historic Victorian dam on the Western Isles is among five major habitat restoration projects being funded by Scotland’s salmon farmers that are aimed at tackling the decline in wild Scottish salmon.
Original content
A total of £120,000 has been granted to organisations this year as part of a partnership between Salmon Scotland and Fisheries Management Scotland to address the long-term decline in wild salmon populations. Now in its second year, the £1.5 million Wild Salmonid Fund is financed directly by Salmon Scotland and managed by independent charity Foundation Scotland. The West Harris Trust has been awarded £35,000 to save the leaking Fincastle Dam which supports the western bank of Loch Fincastle and connects the Luskentyre Estuary with the freshwater of the loch and the Laxdale river where wild salmon progress to their spawning grounds. The other four projects are: Argyll Fisheries Trust has been awarded £20,342 to fund improvement works at River Ruel and River Eachaig in the Cowal Peninsula, to reduce rates of riverbank erosion and fine sediment entering the rivers. Ayrshire Rivers Trust has been awarded £16,775 to undertake a restoration project ...
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