Beauly District Fishery Board

With Ruth, our Senior Biologist’s departure in mid-July, we are looking to recruit a Fisheries Operations Manager. Please get in touch if interested: Fisheries Operations Manager Specification.

We are delighted to have been awarded £6,263 from Highland Council’s Nature Restoration Fund, to help with the first phase of our smolt trial Trap and Truck work. The money has allowed us to purchase a smolt transport tank, water pump, smolt holding boxes, seasonal help, and small boat. Monitoring has commenced at Erchless, with a few run throughs of trap and truck planned for this season. Monitoring the effectiveness of this trial mitigation in future years is essential, and pending funding, we aim to monitor the resultant adult return through the installation of a PIT tag decoder at Kilmorack dam….

Thanks also to SSE for lending us their 6ft rotary screw trap.

Want to make a positive difference? The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) are currently recruiting for a Seasonal Project Officer to support Trudi and our lovely volunteers. This post will be based with us and covers the Beauly, Ness, and Cromarty catchments. See the SISI website for more details:  Join our team | Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI)

Deadlines for applications are 12 noon, on 16th March 🙂

We are delighted to announce that we have successfully recruited Anthony Watkins into the Senior biologist (maternity cover) position to cover Ruth’s maternity leave (from November).

Ant brings with him much experience from his time as SEPA’s north fishery biologist and we look forward to him starting with us from 25th September 🙂

We are looking for a recent graduate to come and work with us between April and September this year. Interested? Please check out information here: Working with Rivers graduate placement scheme | NatureScot

December 2022
We are very happy to announce that our Oral History Project is available to listen to here. Transcripts are available for each interview if you click on the relevant audio file. Thanks to Louise for the many hours of hard work that went into making this happen.

The Board is delighted to report that Ali Skinner has taken up the post of Fisheries Officer/Bailiff for the Beauly District.  Ali has a varied career in the fishing industry having first been a deep-sea fisherman, then progressing through the ranks to become Senior Fisheries Officer for Marine Scotland.  He then joined the River Nairn as their Bailiff.

Ali can be contacted by email on ali@beaulyfisheryboard.org

The Board is delighted to report that Ruth Watts has taken up post as senior biologist for the Beauly District.  Ruth previously worked as an ecologist for SEPA and has 10 years experience in freshwater ecology. She lives locally and her experience and enthusiasm for the job will be of great benefit to the Board and all those with an interest in salmon on the Rivers Beauly / Farrar and Glass.

Ruth can be contacted by email ruth@beaulyfisheryboard.org

The Board has submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the above proposals.  The response can be found here: –Beauly DSFB Response – Consultation on Licenced Killing of Wild Salmon