Argyll

Argyll and Lochaber region covers from Arrochar on Loch Long at the Southern border of Argyll to Loch Hourn at the Northern Border of Lochaber. There are four salmon and four trout farming companies within Argyll and Lochaber with a total of 70 sites signed up to area management agreements. Currently there are 6 signed area management agreements and an additional three agreements that are under negotiation.

 

Argyll and Lochaber river systems are classically smaller spate rivers which are home to small numbers of salmon and trout, due to these smaller populations the fish are therefore more sensitive to pressures such as habitat disruption, genetic degradation, poor marine survival and over fishing. As a result of these pressures Argyll and Lochaber rivers are in variable state of health, some rivers such as the Awe in Argyll and the Lochy in Lochaber quite successful rivers were viable fisheries still operate, while other rivers within the regions are now extinct.

 

Lucy Fry is an Australian citizen who has been living and working in Argyll for the past three years. She graduated from the University of Tasmania with an Honours degree in Aquaculture specialising in salmon parasitology. Since graduating she has worked within the Aquaculture industry on Salmon hatcheries, and has been working as the Argyll and Lochaber Regional Development Officer for a year. During this time she has been passionately campaigning to increase wild salmon numbers in Argyll and Lochaber.

 

Mrs Jane Wright

Argyll Fisheries Trust and Argyll District Salmon Fisheries Board

 

Mr Chris Wallace

Marine Harvest Scotland

 

Mr Derek Smith

Panfish Scotland

 

Mr John Gibb

Lochaber District Salmon Fisheries Board

 

Mrs Grace Henderson

Lochaber Fisheries Trust