by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Delivering Fish in the Classroom During Covid 2020 has been a unique year for many reasons some of which have been regularly reported on. The lesser known impact that I have experienced in the Forth Rivers Trust is the effect Covid-19 has had on the Fish in the...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Water Vole Project Update – Safely Volunteering in 2021 Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have not been able to host any volunteering events on the Trossachs Water Vole Project. 2020 saw a hugely scaled back water vole survey season on previous years and...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
 Shouting into the Ether It can be daunting enough delivering a lecture to a live audience but delivering presentations online comes with a range of new challenges. Having never really used any of the online presentation packages prior to 2020, I now find myself...
by Jonathan Louis | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Virtual Volunteering As the initial lockdown and response to the pandemic unfolded it became apparent that things at the Trust were going to be very different in 2020. An important aspect of the RiverLife project focusses on the activities we carry out with...
by Jonathan Louis | Friday, October 23, 2020
World Fish Migration Day – Barriers to Fish Migration Man-made weirs (known as barriers to fish passage) cause a major impact on migratory fish around the Forth. The map below shows that impact visually based on barrier locations with section of the rivers...
by Jonathan Louis | Friday, October 23, 2020
World Fish Migration Day – Eels Next up for World Fish Migration Day we thought we would talk about the European Eel. Â The European eel has an astonishing life cycle and is the only European fish species that leaves the coast to spawn in the sea. Starting as an...
