River Eden Fife

18/10/2026

Well that's a wrap for this season's kick sampling! It was a beautiful weekend if a bit chilly, for our final samples at our 7 sites. Quite the surprise for one group to pick up a chunky Eden brown trout in the sample, quickly returned to the river! A huge thank you to all our samplers, to the new recruits who have joined the team this year - and to the fabulous team at Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust for their excellent support throughout, helping us with training, trigger breaches and all our many enquiries. Now we leave the river to let the fish spawn and the bugs to do, well bug things.

29/09/2026

Good to support this sustainable active transport initiative!

25/09/2026

Celebrating World Rivers Day!
Sneak peak of a couple of our talks for Sunday 27th Sept at River Eden Day in the Corn Exchange, Cupar 10am - 5pm. See you there!
Talks on Invertebrates and Water Quality will be led by Kerry Dodd of and Tayanne Corbani and Nicky Allison of

25/09/2026

Celebrating World Rivers Day!

Sneak peak of a couple of our talks for Sunday 27th Sept at River Eden Day in the Corn Exchange, Cupar 10am - 5pm. See you there!
Talks on Invertebrates and Water Quality will be led by Kerry Dodd of Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust and Tayanne Corbani and Nicky Allison of

21/09/2026

River Eden Day 2026! Looking forward to welcoming everyone to our celebration of World Rivers Day with a day of talks, activities and stalls from 10am - 5pm in Cupar Corn Exchange with joint funding from the Wildlife Trust Riverwoods programme and Sustainable Cupar. Thank you to all our contributing speakers including Water Quality experts Tayanne Corbani and Nicky Allison, Kerry Dodd of Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, Douglas Traynor and Jane Hamilton of Scottish Invasive Species Initiative, Scottish Wildlife Trust's Nicole Still and Coast & Countryside Trust's Fife Climate Forest manager Claire Williams. The day will finish with the LUNZ-funded film Strange Kin: a parliament of soils of the River Eden by artists Tom Morton and Becky Little in association with The James Hutton Institute.

15/09/2026

What do you think Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust? Good to see a damselfly winning the BBC The Great British Sewing Bee? 🧚‍♂️

09/09/2026

Good work!

26/08/2026

Celebrate World Rivers Day with us this September! The Upper Hall in Cupar Corn Exchange will be filled with stalls and activities and talks encouraging us all to learn more about our beautiful river. Thanks to all the partners and organisations that have agreed to come along including Sustainable Cupar Scottish Invasive Species Initiative Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust Scottish Wildlife Trust Riverwoods Lucky Ewe Fife Coast & Countryside Trust Cupar Arts Eden Angling Association and more! The day will end with a screening of Strange Kin: a Parliament of Soils of River Eden by Tom Morton and Becky Little.

04/08/2026

Good advice for samplers from Riverfly Partnership and Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust

📏 Some of us might see water levels dropping at our sites over the summer, if we get prolonged periods of dry weather.

🛑 If the water level is too low to get invertebrates into the net, there's no need to attempt a kick sample. However, please still log your survey on the database, showing that you weren't able to take a sample. It's still really valuable if you continue to visit your site on a monthly basis and take photos, even if you aren't always able to sample it. 💻

☀️ For our full guidance on carrying out Riverfly surveys through the summer months, please see riverflies.org/summer-survey-guidance. ☀️

31/07/2026

Latest water scarcity report with effects on Fife

Recent rainfall has improved river conditions in parts of Scotland, with some catchments recovering to lower levels of water scarcity. However, prolonged dry weather means rivers across much of eastern Scotland remain under significant pressure.

Four catchments: Lunan Water, Lower Don, North Fife and Fife (East Neuk), remain in Significant Scarcity, while several other eastern catchments have deteriorated to Moderate Scarcity or Alert status. Although more rain is forecast, it is too early to know whether it will be enough to restore river flows in the areas currently under pressure.

We continue to assess conditions daily, with temporary restrictions on licensed water abstractions remaining in place in catchments affected by Significant Scarcity until river conditions recover.

Read the latest report: beta.sepa.scot/news/2026/rain-not-enough-to-reduce-pressure-on-scotland-s-eastern-rivers/