Early history
In the 1920s salmon could access right up to
Loch Garry and beyond and would have found spawning
habitat at intervals throughout the length of
the river and long stretches of excellent habitat
for parr. There can be little doubt that the
Garry would have been a good nursery area, probably
producing several tens of thousands of salmon
smolts per year. It was fished at least as far
upstream as Dalnamein Lodge.
Abstraction commenced in 1937 when the privately
owned Grampian Electricity Supply Company starting
abstracting from Loch Garry. The headwaters of an important
Garry tributary, the Edendon were also diverted
into the Spey catchment. By the Second World
War salmon could no longer use the Garry above
the Edendon confluence but they still made
use of what was left.
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