1. James Hunt Suzie Taylor Jonny Archer Patrick Barbour

2. Tweed open day

3. Some of our work for the last year…
• Temperature work on freshets
• Where to plant trees for shading the river?
• Salmon smolt tracking project
• Adult Salmon head collection for Otolith analysis
• SALMOVE genetics sampling
• Correcting Ettrick counter data …

4. Organising the Gala Water as a monitored river for the catchment

5. NEPS electro-fishing sampling
Electro-fishing results Fish counter results

6. 644 eggs per 100m2
3,746 eggs per 100m2
1,133 eggs per 100m2

8. Gala PIT tag returns

10. Gala PIT tag returns
Tagg
ing
Year
Species Period Location Sample
size
Number of
detections
Return
rate (%)
2019 Salmon Spring Gala fish trap 1,021 15 1.5
2021
Sea
Trout
Spring Gala fish trap 283 27 10.3
2022
Sea
Trout
Spring Gala fish trap 610
2022 Salmon Spring Gala fish trap 1,299
2021 Salmon Spring Gala fish trap 200 2 1.0

11. Brown Trout tracking

12. Fish eating bird dietary analysis