The Ness District Salmon Fishery Board will be holding its Annual Public Meeting at 19:30 on Thursday the 22nd January 2015 in the Kingsmills Suite, Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club.
The key purpose of our Annual Public Meeting is to report to the local community on our activities over the last year and to seek wider engagement in Fishery Board business. It will include presentation of our 2014 Annual Report and Accounts and an explanation of key activities planned for the forthcoming year. The report can be viewed by clicking on the cover image to the right of this text (hard copies available at the Public Meeting).
The agenda for the meeting will be as follows:
1. Introduction
Michael Martin – Chairman, Ness District Salmon Fishery Board (NDSFB)
Michael will give a brief welcome and introduction to the 2014 Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 15th May 2014.
2. “2014 – A Year in Review”
Chris Conroy – Director, NDSFB
Chris will provide an overview of the activities of the Board over the last year, together with those planned for the forthcoming year.
3. “Ness and Beauly Fisheries Trust: Report on 2014 Activities”
Nick Barker – Senior Biologist, Ness and Beauly Fisheries Trust
Nick will provide an overview of the activities of the Trust over the last year, in particular the results of their fish monitoring programmes.
4. “The River Carron Research Project: Supporting Management with Leading Edge Science”
Professor Eric Verspoor, Director Rivers and Lochs Institute, Inverness)
Eric will focus on the use of science to investigate the merits of different types of stock intervention and the problems of using catch statistics alone to establish the status of a river stock.
5. Question and Answer Session
Questions will be invited at the end of the presentations.
6. AOB
A proposal was received from a member of the public for consideration of the potential impacts of the sewage outfall at Alturlie on the migratory behaviour of salmon.
This meeting is open to the public, however places are limited to 130 seats. Please contact Chris Conroy (Director and Clerk) at ceo@ndsfb.org or 01463 861245 to register an interest in attending and to assist us in planning seating and refreshments