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.
Tweed Wheelyboats To continue to provide access for disabled anglers through the provision of Wheelyboats.
Scale Reading To continue a programme reading scales of Salmon, Sea-trout and Brown Trout, developing the identification of fish population structures in Tweed. To develop databases to hold information and from which to produce analyses and reports.
Exploitation To continue to estimate the level of exploitation of Salmon and Sea-trout in Tweed by netting and tagging fish & exploring new techniques to do this.
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 including upstream and downstream migrations; 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 and their connections with their environments.
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 fry indexing on the tributaries. The 2011 surveys will be on the Whiteadder, Eye, Leet and Eden. The coastal burns outside the Tweed catchment but inside the Fisheries District will be surveyed for the first time. ......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 complete work with the University of Newcastle to monitor invasive signal crayfish and to investigate control methodology. To investigate a feasibility plan to eradicate crayfish from the Whiteadder stank where they have been identified......more
Consultancy To continue to deliver efficient and good value biological survey facilities to developers and others on the River.
Water Temperatures. To continue monitoring water temperatures at key points within the catchment.
St Mary’s Loch To continue involvement with the Selkirk Flood prevention programme with includes the regulation of water flows from St Mary Loch and therefore includes improved fish passage.
Predators To continue monitoring predators in the catchment. To develop techniques to improve the accuracy of population estimates in the District and to estimate predation on specific fish stock components....more
TweedStart To develop TweedStart as program to introduce.....more
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