We are now recruiting an Education Officer to join the River Dee Trust team! We are looking for someone who can increase awareness, enthusiasm for and understanding of our rivers in Deeside and Aberdeen City. Working with schools and community groups, you will enable young people to undertake outdoor learning in a safe and fun manner and introduce them to the river on their doorstep. Sound interesting ? Then please read more.
River Dee Trust seeks a Biologist to spearhead research on the iconic River Dee! With Atlantic Salmon at crisis point across the country we are looking for someone who will be responsible for the research and monitoring programmes carried out by the Trust. The post is a challenging and significant one as it will guide the fisheries management of one of Scotland’s major rivers. This will include monitoring fish populations, analysing data to inform restoration programmes and communicating the information to stakeholders.
Award Winning Journalist Set to Lead the Trust
Work is progressing on projects funded by the Biodiversity Challenge Fund (BCF), running from July 2019 – September 2020
The Dee Dsfb has produced a short facsheet detailing its position on enhancement stocking
The River Dee Trust has published the results of the 2019 UDRS Electrofishing
The River Dee Trust has published the findings of its scale reading study
The Callum Mackenzie Cup is awarded by Ballogie Estate Enterprises for the most notable fish, of any species, caught by a youngster within the Dee catchment, including Rivers Cowie and Carron or one of the many trout fisheries in the district.
The new Annual Review highlighting the work of the Board and Trust is available to read.
A project to conserve one of Scotland’s most famous salmon rivers has been recognised in a national awards scheme for environmental excellence.
One of the Dee’s most exciting projects got underway in 2014 when a fish pass was installed on the Culter Burn in the autumn of that year.
Since 2016 the River Dee Trust has been engaged in a major piece of work to find out more about smolt production on the lower Dee.
With the season coming to a close Fisheries Officers are still working hard to protect salmon from poachers. Poaching still goes on and can have a major impact on fish stocks, particularly when numbers are down across the country.
The River Dee Trust is fundraising to reignite its education programme.
The Upper Dee Riparian Woodland Project has been shortlisted in the Enhancing Our Environment category at Scottish Land & Estates' 2019 Helping It Happen Awards.
The River Dee Trust is holding a dinner to celebrate the Living River on Friday 31st January 2020. The dinner will be held at Banchory Lodge and follows on from a successful inaugural event held at the Lodge earlier this year.
The Culter catchment is an ideal breeding ground for salmon
As expected, the first pink salmon has been caught on the Dee
This short film showcases our new project in the Upper Dee Catchment
Increase numbers of smolts indicates we are past the worst of Storm Frank.
Maryculter House Hotel will be donating a discretionary £1 from every diner’s bill to the River Dee Trust, with the aim of raising more than £10,000 year.
New Invasive Species Co-ordinator, Estée Farrar starts with the River Dee Trust. Estée will be leading our invasive control work across the Dee and Don catchments on behalf of the River Dee Trust and also heading up the NEINNS control programme across the NE of Scotland
Smolt tagging and tracking has been taking place on the Dee since 2016. The recent decline in salmon stocks prompted the Dee management to take a new focus to investigate what is happening to these fish as they begin their migration
In order to protect recently planted trees on the banks of the Dee at Invercauld, not far from Braemar Castle, Dee Salmon Fishery Board staff have been using live, locally sourced willow to stabilize areas of rapidly eroding banks.
We are delighted that the Trust's online auction raised £10,522.
The new season opened on 1 February as the River Dee community gathered to celebrate the River
We had a fantastic, if freezing, start to the new season
Join River Operations Manager Edwin Third, as he introduces a new project to boost juvenile salmon salmon on the Dee.
The 2017-2018 review can now be downloaded from the website.
The Callum Mackenzie Cup is awarded by Ballogie Estate Enterprises for the most notable fish, of any species, caught by a youngster within the Dee catchment.
Woody debris structures were installed into a section of the Gelder Burn just over a year ago, to trial this management technique for the first time in our catchment.
River Operations Manager, Edwin Third explains how we are using LWD on the Dee catchment.
Join the River Dee team as we continue our work to protect our most precious resource, Atlantic salmon smolts
All you need to know about good C&R practice.
A new chapter opens for the Dee with the appointment of Dr Lorraine Hawkins as River Director
101 Dee smolts were tagged and tracked to help us better understand their journey to the sea,
Reminder for Annual Public Meeting with links to paperwork on website.
Last year was a busy year for the River Dee Trust and the River Don Trust and their army of volunteers in the fight against invasive non-native plants on our riverbanks.
Is a hatchery a practical, cost effective, sustainable and beneficial way of boosting rod catches of adult Atlantic Salmon in the Dee?
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