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Asfb-Rafts Association of Salmon Fishery Boards | Rivers and Fishery Trusts of Scotland

The Association of Salmon Fishery Boards (ASFB) is the representative body for Scotland's 41 District Salmon Fishery Boards (DSFBs) including the River Tweed Commission (RTC), which have a statutory responsibility to protect and improve salmon and sea trout fisheries. Conservation of fish stocks, and the habitats on which they depend, is essential and many DSFB’s operate habitat enhancement scheme

s and have voluntarily adopted ‘catch and release’ practices to this end. ASFB create policies that seek where possible to protect wider biodiversity and our environment as well as enhancing the economic benefits for our rural economy that result from angling. An analysis completed in 2004 demonstrated that freshwater angling in Scotland results in the Scottish economy producing over £100 million worth of annual output, which supports around 2,800 jobs and generates nearly £50million in wages and self-employment into Scottish households, many of which are in rural areas. Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland (RAFTS) is an independent freshwater conservation charity representing Scotland's national network of 24 rivers and fisheries Trusts and Foundations. Our members work across over 90% of Scotland’s freshwaters to protect and develop our native fish stocks and populations by undertaking a range of activities including freshwater, river habitat restoration, fish and fisheries monitoring, research and education programmes. RAFTS is the membership organisation of the fisheries and rivers trusts operating in Scotland and is, itself, a charity and company limited by guarantee.

ASFB and RAFTS wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
21/12/2012

ASFB and RAFTS wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

04/09/2012

Killing beavers may become necessary to control their numbers if the animals were formally reintroduced to Scotland, according to a new report. Beavers have been released in Knapdale, in Argyll, in a trial project. A wider programme of releases in the future could, in some places, see the animals ca...

03/09/2012

A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the Scottish coast, with 339 turbines sited in the Moray Firth, has been unveiled. Developers say the £4.5 billion project, 13 miles off Caithness, could create hundreds of jobs and provide electricity for a million homes. It w...

03/09/2012

The Environment Agency have just published comprehensive guidance on creating riparian shading on rivers. The guidance has been produced to support the creation of shade over rivers using riparian trees and vegetation (riparian shade). The focus is on maintaining suitable freshwater habitat for salm...

03/09/2012

NEW FIGURES even before the season's end yesterday show that of 200 salmon released and tagged after capture on the River Gaula below Gaulfossen this season, 30 per cent have been re-caught by anglers. The figure is even more surprising when compared with equivalent data on neighbouring river that f...

03/09/2012

Projects helping the UK fishing industry and others in the supply chain to comply with traceability regulations could be subsidised by the EU. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in the UK is co-ordinating an EU aid scheme on behalf of the UK through which up to 90 per cent funding may be provi...

03/09/2012

The Aquaculture Industry Environmental Fund has allocated NOK11.6 million to various initiatives in 57 rivers across Norway. The Aquaculture Industry Environmental Fund has now completed three rounds of funding since its inception in the spring of 2011. There are two grant rounds per year. A total o...

17/08/2012

The course of the River Nith was altered at Kier’s Greenburn Surface Coal Mine near New Cumnock, during the second week of August 2012. This was the first of two planned diversions of the river to facilitate the extraction of coal beneath the original channel. Fishery protection measures were incorp...

14/08/2012

A fishery board has condemned the Scottish government's decision to extend the season for the country's biggest wild salmon netting company. The Esk District Salmon Fishery Board said giving Usan Salmon Fisheries an additional 14 days to catch fish was "recklessly irresponsible". It has described th...

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