Ayrshire Rivers Trust: The Impacts of Plantation Forestry on Brown Trout.

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This video looks at the work Ayrshire Rivers Trust are/have carried out to help protect and improve a loch trout population impacted by forestry plantations in Ayrshire. With severely degraded spawning habitat ART reluctantly ran a small trout egg incubator to help boost the productivity of a key spawning burn where habitat has become so impacted by sediment that trout numbers are becoming increasingly depressed.