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The current priorities of the Foundation are agreed each year at a joint technical review meeting of the Directors of the Foundation and the Committee of the River Tweed Commission; it is usually held in November:
Education
To continue educational meetings and publications explaining the work of the Foundation to a wide audience.
Scale Reading
To continue a programme reading scales of Salmon, Sea-trout and Brown Trout, developing the identification of fish population structures in Tweed.
Exploitation
To continue developing methodology to estimate the level of exploitation of Salmon and Sea-trout in Tweed by netting and tagging fish. (Exploitation means the proportion of a population at the beginning of a given time period that is caught during that time period).
Tweed Sea Trout
Through the Living North Seas Program, to work out the river and sea distributions and migrations of the Sea-trout of the Tweed catchment to allow a properly informed management plan to be drawn up to ensure their sustainable exploitation in the future....more
Tweed Traps
To continue monitoring the fish traps on Tweed to understand the population dynamics and relationships between Brown Trout and Sea-trout.
Tweed Trout & Grayling Initiative (TTGI)
To continue the wild trout and grayling initiative on Tweed, working with Angling Clubs to develop sustainable management plans for trout and grayling.....more
Geographical Information System (GIS)
To continue using GIS as the prime method of data and information management and retrieval on Tweed. To extend and improve the output systems from the GIS to speed up data retrieval and analysis to improve inputs to the management work as a whole.
Fish Counters
To operate and to analyse the data of two existing fish counters on the River Ettrick and Gala Water and to assist with the installation of a third in the River Whiteadder..... more
Fry Indexing and Electro-fishing.
To continue the extension of the indexing of fry on the tributaries. 2010 electro-fishing work will be on the Till and Teviot......more
Genetics
To continue participation in a national genetics scheme by collecting samples and commissioning analysis of them through the Rivers and Fisheries Trusts (Scotland) team working at the Fisheries Research Laboratory......more
Crayfish
To continue work with the University of Newcastle to monitor invasive signal crayfish and to investigate control methodology.....more
Consultancy
To continue to deliver efficient and good value biological survey facilities to developers and others on the River.
Ettrick / Yarrow
To continue monitoring water temperatures and to investigate differences with relation to stocks over the catchment to give a baseline against which changes can be measured.
St Mary’s Loch
To assist Scottish Water to investigate the efficiency of access to the loch.
Predators
To continue monitoring predators in the catchment....more
TweedStart
To develop TweedStart as program to introduce.....more
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