The Girnock Burn is an intensively monitored sub-catchment of the
Aberdeenshire River Dee in north-east Scotland covering an area of ca. 31km2.
The Scottish Government Marine Directorate, Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory
(and its predecessors)...
The National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland (NEPS) provides a national
scale statistical survey of Scotland’s salmon rivers (Jackson et al.,
2025). The foundation of the programme is a statistical survey design that
ensures collection of...
Wild Atlantic salmon and brown trout are important to the rural economy,
biodiversity and cultural heritage of Scotland, and valuable indicators of
ecosystem health. However, their populations are in decline across much of
their native range....
Data comprise sampling for wild sea trout from named sampling locations. The
number of fish, individual fish fork length and the number and life cycle
stage of any sea lice found are all recorded.
Notes on temporal and spatial coverage
Data are...
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