Outer Hebrides Fisheries Trust

Previous Community Angling Day The Trust was awarded £600 from the Western Isles Development Trust; this will enable us to carry out two Community Angling Days Throughout 2026. An updated and pictures will be posted on completion of project.

We conduct yearly projects:  Junior Angling Days, “Salmon in the Classroom”, electrofishing, freshwater fish monitoring etc. Some of the locations of these projects can be remote and normal communications like a mobile phone may not have a signal. Being able to purchase two satellite communicators enables us to confidently take out children, volunteers and staff as we know if there is an emergency we can contact the emergency services.

Paul Hopper, Senior Biologist with OHFT giving a presentation on The Fish of the Hebrides and the dangers that they face to survive and how they can become more involved in looking after their marine environment. "Salmon in the Classroom" this is a programme for primary schools in the Outer Hebrides - to improve understanding of our freshwater environment and to promote the work done by the Outer Hebrides Fisheries Trust. In September 2025 we visited Balivanich Primary School

Example photo - Laxdale Scout Group We were awarded a grant of £3000 which enabled us to organise Junior Angling Days on the Isle of North and South Uist in May 2026. Balivanich Primary School, Iochdar Primary School, North Uist Primary School and Daliburgh Primary School will all take part in our Junior Angling Days. The grant also enabled us to organise a minibus to take the children back and forth from the riverside. There will be an update and pictures on this project wh

We were awarded grants from Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust (£1000) and Sir Iain Stewart Foundation (£1,200) towards the work we do in Helping our Ecosystem through Angling Days for Young People. The above pictures shows some of the young people we took out on one of our Angling Days. The fish caught by the young people were all released back into the river as we promote "Catch and Release".

The National Lottery Community Fund 2025 awarded us a grant of £343 which enabled us to purchase 5 new fishing rods, reels and floats. The Trust have 20 rods and with the 5 new rods we will be able to give all participants of our Junior Angling Days a rod each rather than having to share.

Fisheries Management Scotland News release – 8 August 2025 Scotland sees first reports of invasive, non-native pink salmon in 2025

The above picture shows our new truck which we purchased with the help of grants from Gordon and Ena Baxter Foundation, Garfield Weston...

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Views are being sought on proposed Salmon river gradings for the 2022 season. An assessment of the conservation status of salmon in...

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We caught some very large smolts earlier this year as part of the West Coast Tracking Project. Some of the smolts measured up to 20cm...

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OUTER HEBRIDES FISHERIES TRUST SEASONAL ASSISTANT A seasonal assistant post is available with OHFT July – September working on a range of...