Impact on Loch Awe of Rainbow Trout escapees
There are two fish farms on Loch Awe in Argyll – one at the south end near Ford, the other in the Pass of Brander opposite the Cruachan Power Station. From time to time large numbers of rainbow trout...
View ArticleScottish Government launches plan for future of freshwater fishing
The Scottish Government has announced details of its Framework for Freshwater Fisheries at the Game Fair in Scone in Perth. It puts forward a new strategy for development of freshwater angling on...
View ArticlePowerful objections to proposed Lamington Quarry as Clyde overflows
Widespread and serious environmental concerns at the proposed sand and gravel quarry at Overburns Farm at Lamington on the Upper Clyde are being formalised.The proposal promises continual traffic...
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IslayFisher fishes the Kilmelford Hill Lochs
Brian Turner (of the IslayFisher website) and Jim Campbell made the journey through from the Borders to Kilmelford in Mid-Argyll last week.They were here for three days in ‘mixed’ weather conditions...
View ArticleSNH and Griff Rhys Jones cast their support for CRAG over Lamington Quarry...
The energetic Clyde River Action Group (CRAG) have had SNH come down on their side in opposition to the application by Paterson’s of Greenoakhill (named and shamed by SEPA as a persistant polluter) to...
View ArticleFlooding flags opposition case on Upper Clyde proposed gravel quarry
The robust case against the proposed establishment of a giant gravel quarry on the banks of the Upper Clyde at Overburns Farm near Lamington found powerful support in December – from nature.The weather...
View ArticleUpper Clyde’s Lamington Quarry campaign maintains its guard
This is the continuing saga of the proposal by one of Scotland’s few serial polluters – Patersons of Greenoakhill (described as such by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) – to establish a...
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