Threats to salmon - gravel extraction

On the River Garry gravel accumulates behind a weir. This is excavated out periodically. The gravel is then dumped on the bank of the Garry forming a veritable mountain of stones. For some distance below the weir the Garry has been starved of gravel for half a century!

Gravel Abstraction on the Garry
   
 
   


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