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Two one-day workshops on the identification of river flies was hosted at the Tweed Foundation offices at Drygrange, near Melrose on 2nd and 3rd July 3003.
The workshops were organised by the John Spedan Lewis Trust for the Advancement of the Natural Sciences and were supported by Scottish Natural Heritage. Experts from the Natural History Museum, London, Liverpool University and The Environment Agency took the workshops, which were aimed at increasing the numbers of people able to identify these flies and make reports on them to the various National Recording Schemes. With more people able to monitor the presence and status of these flies, better information on the health of our rivers will become available. This is the first such event in Scotland, previous workshops having been in Derbyshire and Hampshire.
Those attending the workshops included local fly-fishers from several Tweed angling clubs, anglers from Northumberland and the Clyde, staff from the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park as well as personnel from the local offices of SEPA and SNH and the Borders Biological Records Centre.
The samples for identification were collected from the Leader Water at Drygrange and the identification sessions were in the Tweed Foundation’s Education Centre.
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