Galloway Fisheries Trust


Galloway Fisheries Trust



 

Fishery Management Planning

After working across the region's waters for many years, GFT holds a large amount of data from each catchment. In order to collate this data and produce a meaningful future management strategy a Fishery Management Plan is being produced in 2009 for each of the six major rivers GFT covers, covering all fish species.

The overall aim of a Fishery Management Plan is to produce a long term management strategy for a river catchment, incorporating all current fishery issues and management within the river, tributaries and still waters of that catchment. Plans include aims and objectives, a description of the fishery including an assessment of current stocks, apparent limiting factors within the fishery and a monitoring plan and review process.

A vital element within the plan is the collection of basic information about a river catchment including relevant historical and recent data relating to the catchment. In this way any gaps in knowledge of the system will be identified. It is essential to ensure that Fishery Management Plans are working documents that can be used by stakeholders, agencies and other interested parties.

Atlantic salmon
Several age classes of brown trout

 

Galloway Fisheries Trust