Deliverables

THE WORK

  1. Assess Club areas for fishability and fishing pressure & club membership's profile, concerns & wishes
  2. Assess club fish nursery areas for juveniles and upland waters for adult / catchable sized trout
  3. Assess and monitor the river fly life of each club's area
  4. Assess the Trout and Grayling catches of each Club's areas
  5. Assess the Brown-trout breeding stocks of each area
  6. Assess the Grayling stocks of each area
  7. Assess levels of trout and Grayling predators
  8. Improve local knowledge of the Trout and Grayling resource, their histories & the work of this project

WHAT WILL BE ACHIEVED

A1: Trained personnel in each club who can identify problems and implement solutions in fishing areas

A2:Better fishing through improved access and quality of fishing area, and reduction in pressure on over-used areas

A3: Data on gravel deposition as basis for input to local government / Catchment  Management Plan

A4: Photographic/ video record of the club's fishing area, to be a baseline for the future 

A5 : Reduced gravel input into river system

A6: Report on attitudes of Tweed trout and Grayling anglers, usage they make of the river, their background and what they think of the fishing at present and what they would like it to be in the future

B1: Trained personnel in each club who can identify problems and implement solutions in trout nursery areas

B2 : Increased quantity and improved quality of trout spawning habitat

B3: Quantification of trout spawning area in each club's sector

B4: Quantification of upland trout fishing resource for possible use, either local  & social (if found not to be strong) or for wider marketing if assessment shows that the resource could sustain such pressure. Given the age of larger trout in upland areas, any fishing would have to be fly only and catch and release

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C1-a : Trained personnel in each club who can monitor fly life and keep members informed of status of their areas

C1-b : Identification of problem areas requiring action by government Agencies

D1-a: Annual Report on Trout and Grayling catches for each Club's area and for the Tweed as a whole, making anglers better informed about the state of the fishery

D2: Better Trout and Grayling fishing as a result of better fishing regulations

D3: Knowledge of the age structure of the trout populations being exploited, an important guide to their status.and a source of guidance for the setting of angling regulations

D4: Knowledge of the gender structure of the trout populations being exploited, an important guide to their status.and a source of guidance for the setting of angling regulations

E1: Better Trout fishing as a result of better fishing regulations and increased breeding stock of Brown-trout

F1: Map of Grayling spawning areas

F2: Better Grayling fishing

G: Better assessment of predation pressures

H1: Reports on history of Tweed Trout and Tweed Grayling fisheries.

H2: Website

H2: Newspaper

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THIS PROJECT IS PART-FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SCOTTISH BORDERS LEADER+ 2000-2006 Programme

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