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FNLFT Newsletter Spring 2018 www.fnlft.org.uk River Lossie– Invasive Plant Control Findhorn The FNLFT has been successful in gaining over £11,000 funding to tackle Giant Hogweed and Nairn & Japanese Knotweed along the River Lossie for a third Lossie year. Get Bidding Thanks to support from the Scottish Landfill Fisheries The Findhorn Nairn & Lossie Fisheries Trust Communities Fund through EB Scotland, contractors has launched an online auction to raise will return to intensively treat the dense infestations in Trust funds to help keep our rivers healthy and the Upper Lossie catchment from Dallas downstream to safeguard them for future generations. The Brokentore. online auction will raise vital funds to deliver Starting this spring, contractors are clearing dead JK practical advice and habitat work, inspiring stems to facilitate treatment later in then year. The late and helping people to protect river habitats spring has delayed the growth of GH, but the young and the wild salmon and trout populations plants will be sprayed with herbicide in May and June. they sustain. Stem injecting herbicide into Japanese knotweed The most efficient treatment of JK is to inject herbicide This is an unmissable opportunity to get directly into the stems as the plant is starting to prepare your hands on some unique, exclusive and Auction Lot- Roe Buck stalking at Dalmagarry for winter in August and September. The herbicide is even quirky experiences and items. You Estate drawn down into the roots at this time of year. can bid for fishing lots on exceptional beats Once the density of INNS is reduced, we will be able to on the River Findhorn which are not So visit our auction website, get bidding and tackle infestations further downstream. normally available to salmon anglers- at share with friends. The auction will close on Cawdor, Dunphail and Corrybrough. Deer the 7th May 2018. Findhorn Nairn Lossie stalking on the Coignafearn and Aberarder Auction on the Givergy website. Fishing the Findhorn, Nairn & Lossie Estates in the heart of the Monadhliath Bob Laughton, The FNLFT Director, is delighted Fishing tickets, tackle and good advice is available Future News Mountains is also available. If that doesn’t with the support received from both local from these local suppliers: To make sure you receive our newsletters in future, tempt you, then how about two tonnes of businesses and individuals – many of the beech firewood from the forests of auction lots are truly once in a lifetime Forres Tackle Shop: please sign up using the subscribe form on our opportunities. We would like to thank all our 97d High Street, Forres IV36 1AA 01309 672936 website. Please also ‘whitelist’ our email address Darnaway- although free delivery is ([email protected]) to ensure e-newsletters don’t go restricted to Forres. There is also a kind donors, who recognise the importance of Angling Centre: Newsletter into your spam filter. We will only email you fantastic selection of dining, holiday breaks keeping our rivers healthy, by offering lots for Moss St, Elgin IV30 1LU 01343 547615 newsletters and notices of the FNLFT AGM, so you and cultural experiences to bid for. The the auction. The funds generated from the Pat Fraser: won’t be bombarded with emails from us. great thing about the Findhorn Nairn Lossie auction will enable us to continue our 41 High Street, Nairn IV12 4AG 01667 453038 Online Auction is that there is something for invaluable restoration work.” Grahams of Inverness: everyone. Lots start at as little as £10. 37/39 Castle Street, Inverness IV2 3DU The FNLFT has set up a Facebook page to share 01463 233178 information on our activities and news from our three rivers. Please ‘like’ our page to follow our news and Mortimers of Speyside: post any pictures or items of interest you have- we 3 High Street, Grantown-on-Spey, PH26 3HB would love to hear from you. www.facebook.com/ 01479 872684 Findhorn.Nairn.Lossie.Fisheries.Trust Tickets for the Findhorn and Nairn can also be booked online at www.fishpal.com Findhorn Nairn & Lossie Fisheries Trust Spring Fisheries Office, Logie Steading, Dunphail, Forres IV36 2QN Chairman: Mark Laing Phone: 01309 611220 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fnlft.org.uk Director: Bob Laughton 2018 Company Registered in Scotland No. 350687 Registered Charity No. SC040152 Administrator: Valerie Wardlaw Auction Lot– Three days fishing for three rods at Auction Lot– Experience a Moray Inshore Dunearn on the Findhorn Rescue boat trip and training exercise. RESEARCH RESTORE EDUCATE Aberarder River Restoration Project The moment of truth arrived on the 20th September 2017 when the new channel was opened. Within a few days the Similar to many rivers across Scotland, the upper Nairn within river was running well and the channel was forming pools the Aberarder Estate, was straightened and embanked during and run-riffle sequences. During October 2017 the old the Victorian era. This helped drain and improve farmland straight channel was filled in and additional works on and also provided some protection from flooding. However, removing and reducing embankments were also the high sediment load from further upstream has meant the completed. channel has filled with sediment over the years; leading to Two fish rescues were conducted by FNLFT and Nairn DSFB the bed of the river being much higher (perched) than the staff along the straightened channel prior to the new surrounding land. The river is now more prone to flooding, channel opening with well over 1000 juvenile salmon and and as a result of this straightening, the upper Nairn is also trout collected and re-distributed further upstream. classed as being in poor condition under the EU Water Staff from the FNLFT and Nairn DSFB rescuing fish from Framework Directive. the old channel To address the flood risk and raise the status of the river to In September 2017, contractors Salix and McGowans, Monitoring the formation of new pools during the winter good condition an ambitious initiative was developed by the began works on this ambitious project. The diggers quickly of 2017 Aberarder Estate and SEPA, supported through the Water completed the new channel, installing large woody debris Environment Fund (WEF). Hamish Moir, and his team from features using surplus trees from a nearby plantation. A Observations through the winter indicate that the new cbec Engineering, developed a design to return the river to a wetland area was created towards the lower end of the new channel continues to evolve with run/riffles/pools and more natural course. channel to facilitate the capture of fine sediments. a channel through the wetland area developing. To our delight, trout were observed spawning in the new channel in late October and adult salmon were also observed during a visit in November. Further electrofishing is planned for autumn 2018 to examine the colonisation of the new channel. The interesting The new channel– meandering along one of the original, part is still to come; observing and monitoring the river pre-Victorian river courses as it adopts its new, more natural channel. The Trust and Nairn DSFB would like to thank Aberarder A few days after it was opened, a last visit to some remnant Estate, Alice Tree (SEPA), Hamish Moir (cbec), pools left in the old channel produced another three McGowans, Salix, and all the other contributors who hundred fish which were also transferred into the new have helped complete this ambitious project. The canalised River Nairn at Aberarder one! The opening of the new channel Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) is underway To keep up to date with the latest SISI news follow us on twitter (@sisi_project), Facebook (Scottish Invasive Species The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) is a 4-year based in the Spey Fishery Board office. The SISI project will Initiative) or Instagram (Scot_invasive_sps_initiative). partnership project between Scottish Natural Heritage, ten involve the control and management of specific target Vicky Hilton: [email protected] 07340 373211 Fisheries Trusts/Boards and Aberdeen University. The invasive species; Giant hogweed, Japanese knotweed, James Symonds: [email protected] Findhorn Nairn & Lossie Fisheries Trust (FNLFT) has been Himalayan balsam, (and at some sites White butterbur and 01340 810841 working with the partners for several years to develop the American skunk cabbage) and American mink. This will be project which was given the go-ahead by the main funder by both contractors and local volunteers, so if you’d like to (Heritage Lottery Fund) in November 2017. get involved and help please get in touch! A team of 5 staff is now in place across the project area, Alongside the control work will run several other project (most of northern Scotland), who will work with local activities; awareness raising of the problems of invasive Fisheries Trust staff and communities to deliver the species and the need for biosecurity, an education project. Volunteer & Communications Officer, Vicky Hilton, programme highlighting rivers, angling and invasive The SISI Team: has joined the staff at FNLFT, and Project Officer, James species, and a programme of volunteering and wildlife L to R; James Symonds, Callum Sinclair, Vicky Hilton, Al Symonds, will be covering the Spey and the Findhorn, Nairn recording. Reeve, Mark Purrmann-Charles & Lossie catchments, .
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