Fish Eating Birds and Salmonids in Scotland

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

These studies were initiated and funded by The Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department and the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology provided co-funding. The work was carried out from the Banchory Research Station of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and from the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory. We are grateful to the Fishery Group at Pentland House for their support and interest.

The fieldwork on sawbill counts was done with the assistance of K. Duncan, S. Rae, A.J. Leitch, K. Nelson and G. Alexander. Fieldwork to collect nesting data was done with the assistance of N. Cook, and D. Riddell helped with laboratory work. We additionally thank the riparian owners of the Rivers Dee and North Esk for ready access to study sites, and the Dee Fishery Board and Joseph Johnston and Sons Ltd, for information on the birds killed by fisheries managers on these rivers. We are also grateful to the various District Salmon Fishery Boards, and proprietors and tenants for their permission to carry out the fish survey work and population manipulations, and to our colleagues in this work, notably D. Stewart and C. West. Thanks also to S. Finney for help in producing the final Excel figures. Finally, we thank Professors S. Albon and M.P. Harris and A.D. Hawkins for useful discussion about the work and critical comment on the manuscript.